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Writing the Lit Review for Research Methods

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I recently finished a pretty big, for me, literature review that totaled about 17 pages, including the title page and two pages of references. Here are some scattered thoughts and lessons learned, at my customarily hideous length: I saw the wisdom of The Scholarly Cassidy's advice ...

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Writing research papers

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

First in a (no doubt about it) ongoing series. When I had to do my first literature review, and my first big grad school paper, last fall, I asked my mentor, The Indomitable Cassidy, for her advice. Here's what she said: I actually like starting with a "haphazard search," but I prefer ...

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