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+ | Ensuring a Critical Tone Across the Review | ||
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+ | Academic Authority: Ensuring a Critical Voice In Your Literature Review | ||
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+ | Perhaps the most difficult elements of writing an successful literature review is establishing and preserving a uniform scholarly perspective throughout the entire chapter. Commonly, graduate researchers revert to a summary-oriented voice that merely reports what different scholars have concluded failing to providing the essential interpretation that distinguishes a academic synthesis from an annotated bibliography. Developing and maintaining this analytical perspective is critical for showing your scholarly development and establishing yourself as a informed participant in your academic dialogue. | ||
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+ | Establishing the Scholarly Stance | ||
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+ | Prior to being able to maintain a analytical perspective, | ||
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+ | Appraisal and Examination: | ||
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+ | Connection and Combination: | ||
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+ | Understanding and Situating: Explaining what research findings signify within the larger picture of the field and how they connect with your particular study. | ||
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+ | Reasoning and Convincing: Using the literature to develop a rationale for your study focus and to prove the nature of the literature deficiency your work will address. | ||
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+ | Approaches to Cultivating a Scholarly Stance | ||
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+ | Developing and maintaining a critical voice requires conscious effort and the application of definite approaches throughout the writing process: | ||
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+ | Ask Critical Questions: As you read each source, ponder challenging questions such as: | ||
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+ | "What are the merits and limitations of this study' | ||
+ | "In what ways does this study contribute to our understanding of the topic?" | ||
+ | "Which presuppositions underlie this author' | ||
+ | "How does this study connect with other studies in the field?" | ||
+ | "What questions remain unanswered after this research?" | ||
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+ | Utilize Evaluative Terminology: | ||
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+ | Instead of "Smith found," | ||
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+ | Use evaluative phrases like " | ||
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+ | Synthesize, Don't Summarize: Focus on links connecting studies rather than describing them in separation. Organize sources by concept rather than by author. | ||
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+ | Maintain an Argumentative Thread: Ensure that every paragraph progresses your primary claim about the literature. Each source discussion should explicitly connect to your primary objective in reviewing the literature. | ||
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+ | Steering Clear of Typical Errors | ||
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+ | Preserving a scholarly stance requires steering clear of several typical mistakes: | ||
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+ | Overuse of Direct Quotations: Minimize direct quotations. Rather, restate and interpret the ideas in your own words, which proves your understanding of the material and assists in preserving your distinct stance. | ||
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+ | Missing Your Interpretation: | ||
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+ | Uneven Voice: Maintain a uniform scholarly perspective across the whole section. Steer clear of alternating between formal academic language and overly casual expressions. | ||
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+ | Building Credibility | ||
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+ | A powerful scholarly stance helps you develop expertise in your field. This involves: | ||
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+ | Demonstrating Command: Show that you have a thorough understanding of the literature and can situate individual studies within the broader field. | ||
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+ | Balancing Respect and Critique: While being critical, maintain a professional tone toward the work of other scholars. You can challenge methods or interpretations without disrespectful. | ||
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+ | Establishing Your Place: Use your analytical perspective to explicitly situate your own research within the ongoing dialogue in your field. | ||
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+ | Final Thoughts: The Perspective of Expertise | ||
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+ | Sustaining a analytical perspective in your literature review is crucial for changing it from a [[https:// | ||