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Day 17: How To

Source: Pautasso, M. (2013). Ten simple rules for writing a literature review. PLOS Computational Biology 9 (7), 1-5.  What is Sacred: I don't know about sacred. This article gives readers ten simple rules. You know, the Captain Obvious thing again. The little nuggets that I already use - take notes while you are reading and keep track of the sources. I found that out the hard way during my dissertation because well, I'm lazy. Connections to Present/Future Work: This is another article for my chapter 2 literature review class this summer. Show them to the water. They get what they need. 

Day 9: Writing Literature Reviews

Source: Baumeister, R. F. & Leary, M.R. (1997). Writing narrative literature reviews. Review of General Psychology 1 (3), 311-320. What is Sacred: This is another stone soup article, but this time I am using this article for an assigned reading for my ED612 literature review course. I am sure that it would have been easier to use a textbook, but I do not believe in one way for all or one frame for all, so I am building several articles and like other stone soup articles, the reader needs to weigh what they need with what the article is giving them to create their own source material. Therefore, what is sacred just depends. Here is what I pulled out with the understanding that I am looking at this article as a possible source as the instructor of the class and not someone who actually needs to learn how to write my own literature review. Authors aspiring to write such reviews [literature reviews] must therefore recognize that their task is not simply assembling and de...