What Sources Should be Included into your Literature Review?
admin April 8th, 2008
Rather often a question on whether this or that book should or should not be included into a dissertation literature review arises in the mind of a dissertation writer. When searching the sources for covering a dissertation topic, students are at a loss. They catch any opportunity to find the information that at least is distantly related to their topics. Finally, they come back from their university libraries with full package of books, and hands aching.
Now that they are supplied enough with information for their dissertation, they do not know what book to start with. They are at a loss as they see the size of the books they have to read. Actually, it is not that necessary to read all of them. Sometimes even the whole life will not be enough for reading the works in a whole. That is why I recommend you to find the chapters or the paragraphs containing information that can help you with making your dissertation and read them only.
Now let us come back to your dissertation literature review writing. You do not know what works found you should analyze, right? Well, the information given below can help you with it:
- The sources should be relevant and related to your topic;
- They should be up-to-date;
- The source used can present agreement as well as the disagreement with your thesis statement;
- The source should reflect the modern tendencies of the scientific research in relation to your dissertation topic.
Take these tips as the basis of your dissertation literature review, and you will get to know what sources to choose for making your critical analysis of the literature sources found.