How to do a Literature Review | Step by Step | PhD Thesis Writing
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I have been getting some questions since my video on How I Read Research Papers as a PhD Student, and that is how to actually go about the literature review -- how to tackle it as it is quite a big part of the phd thesis. So I have made this video taking you through the different steps to take from your main points down to formulating your first paragraph. I hope this will help anyone who is struggling to get started with the literature review. If you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up here and on TH-cam (so I know to make more content like this), and subscribe if you would like to see more. We are getting close to having our community tab (1000 subscribers), so thanks to everyone who has contributed to that. Stay safe and healthy.
0:00 - intro
2:00 - main topics
4:00 - Qs / subtopics for one main topic
9:00 - keywords for one subtopic (full video on keywords: • How to Do a Literature... )
11:10 - searching (full videos on search: • Literature Search in P... )
16:50 - reading papers (full video on reading papers: • How to read a research... )
21:12 - main points
24:20 - topic sentence & concluding sentence (full video on paragraph structure: • How to Write High Qual... )
26:55 - summary
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This was done 4yrs ago, yet so helpful even today. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. ❤
This was very, very useful! The perfect demonstration. Thank you!
Almost halfway into my first year of PhD and nobody elaborated on how to go through lit review. It started to seem like an umfathomable task, but you make it seem so logical and straight-forward! I made some of the steps intuitively, but now I have a method. Thank you so much for this
I recently watched a video by Holly studies and her main message was that all lit reviews are different and there's so many ways to go about it so I highly recommend checking out her recent video
Same here! I was just told do lit review without any instructions or suggestions!
you are doing a great job , thanks for sharing with us that amazing content , yes we want this supported data !
You do a fantastic job of explaining your process in a way that is easy to follow and makes sense. This information is so helpful. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I really appreciate the time that you spent on this. It’s so useful and pain free. Thanks for sharing. All the best
Glad you enjoyed it!
You smashed it as every single time!! I really like your content...Keep up the nice work
Ismahan Ben thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it
This was so helpful. Thank you so much. I needed to make a plan for reading but I had no idea what to do.
God it's so so helpful!!! I'm gonna cry!! I've suffering from and lost in reading those papers for like a year and could not find the way to organize and extract the points from them, and I keep thinking that why I'm here keeping myself being so painful and frustrated. But now I think I got some motivation when I found this video. Thank you so much for sharing this!
I'm so glad you find this helpful. This is such a lovely comment!
I can relate.
i got good thing thank u ! both you and your lesson are romantic keep it up!!
This is so cool, I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for making it available to all.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am SO pleased to have found you!! Your videos are tremendously helpful! I have struggled under lockdown for literally months trying to get a handle on my process and this has been just what I've needed! Thank you!!
It is just these types of comments that keep me going so thank you!
I think this is exactly what I need. This week will be a determining factor.
You are a star. Thank you so much. I just started my PhD, good luck with your:)
Thank you! You too!
Want to say thank you for giving me a model to work with. This is really going to be very helpful, look forward to more videos.🙏👍
Glad I could help!
I love to see the spontaneity and when you paused it enables me to think what you have just said. When you typed, i really felt that your talk is some kind of hands- on for me :).. Anyway, thank you so much PhD and Productivity for all of the contents. they're really helpful.
Thank you so much for your comment and sorry for the late reply! Glad to have helped in any way!
Great video
Really great! I have a lot of info.about LR.and useful to my paper do more on it .
Nice video again, much enjoyed!
Thanks so much David! Glad that you found it helpful in some way :)
Thank you so much for this video. I am so happy to have found you, because I am approaching my 6th month in my PhD and have been kind of lost most of this time. Thank you
Thanks Jennifer and I hope your PhD is going well.
This is a super helpful video. Thank you so much!
Arunima Datta thank you for your comment. I’m so glad you think so
Thank you so much for this video . It's the first time , I have been so involved in someone's research problem.
Thanks for the motivation ✌️
Now Everyone will gets an insight.
You can also add this to your Google drive and attach a public url.
Keep it up :)
Aman Jolly thanks so much for your kind comment. It motivates me to know my content is well received
I like your video, especially the acronyms of PICO and SPIDER to use when defining the research questions. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
The most intelligent breakdown of the Lit Review I've see so far. Would like to see search video.
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Thank you! The search video is up already
Great video...Thanks a lot...
thank you so much!
It is my first time doing a literature review. Although I was a very careful listener in the lecture, I was so confused about how to actually structure it. Thank you so much for such detailed explanation.
Glad it was helpful!
It is really helpful! I learn a lot about how to start reading literature.
Glad this is helpful!
Brilliant work! It was really helpful ..Massive thanks.Iam wondering if you have done how to formulate research questions?
Great explanation, that is helpful. I like the process.
Thanks Heidi!
Excellent
Some people are blessed with the gift of teaching. Thank you for sharing with us your wisdom. My gosh... you're so good at passing on knowledge. Am believing God to enroll for my PhD this coming summer. Do you mind taking us through on how to write a good research proposal. Thank you so much
Wow, thank you! Unfortunately, I never had to write a proposal so it's not something I have expertise on.
Thank you so much for this video.
No problem! :)
Thank you so much. Really helpful
Glad to hear that!
You've been a lifeline and I'm thankful, we have you... Great content always.
I appreciate that, thank you!
So helpful thank you!!
Glad you think so!
I like ur style, with the help of ur channels i am about to finish my phd dessertation
Good luck!
Very helpful! Thanks :)
Glad you think so!
Thanks!
I am learning a lot from you than my supervisors, many thanks
I am a supervisor and seeing this comment making me think
@@ranjeetram2996 PhD students does not receive any training about these which is the foundation of the work.
@@ArtemisArsha I agree!
I loved this first video I came across made by you! Thanks for creating this, and I hope you'll keep creating new content for graduate students. I had a few questions relating to this topic:
1. At what point do you get feedback from your supervisor during this process? Do you share your subtopics questions with them? The main points? Or do you wait until you've gotten a first draft of your paragraphs before sharing?
2. How many papers do you usually find is adequate to address one subtopic?
3. How much time do you usually spend doing the literature review for one subtopic?
Hey there, welcome to the channel.
1. I would share the skeleton of the review first so how you plan to organise it,. and then I would share for each broad topic.
2. it really can't be quantified. I suppose the answer is you need to find all of them and then decide which are really relevant.
3. It really depends on how many papers there are etc. but overall the review takes a couple of months and will depend on whether you're working on other things at the same time which I did so 1/2 the day on lit review 1/2 the day on a project.
Thanks for this beneficial video for academics.
Most welcome
I wish I had more thumbs to give up cos that was another excellent video! In regard to around 11:20, I for one would love to see you perform an actual search to locate, save or reject papers (I hope that's not too elementary a request).
Y O I will try to put together a video on search strategies ☺️
Y O the search strategy videos are out now
@@PhDandProductivity Thank you so much!!
I am from Nepal. Its very helpful for me. Thank you very much.
You are most welcome
Thanks for the guidance
Thanks for watching and glad you found this useful!
Ciara, great video. Is there a list of your videos please? Stanley
thank you
Another cool vid I wish you all the best
the ops thank you as always for your support
@@PhDandProductivity No problem you're one of my favorite youtubers after all
the ops wow that’s so kind of you!
My research now seems uch more doable! I was getting so concerned and this has saved me!
Glad to have helped in anyway!
I am presently trying to conduct a stand-alone literature review and I don't even know where and how to start. I want more practice structure sort of...but your start off is quite useful. Thanks
I'm glad you find it helpful!
Thanks a lot!!!
You're welcome!
I am a first-year Ph.D. and this is sp helpful thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
watch the video th-cam.com/video/DZ2eoD9cMSI/w-d-xo.html
Thank you so much
You're most welcome! Thanks for commenting
Excellent video! Please can you make a video regarding academic writing!
There are more videos in this series :)
did you make this available for people?
Thanks so much for enlightening us. My journey is much easier learning from you.
Thank you Theresa! I’m so glad to know that this has helped you in any way ☺️
@@PhDandProductivity please send me the PDF document. My email is aokotess@gmail.com. Thanks so much.
Looking forward also to the sentence structuring
Helpful
Thank you! Glad you find it helpful
Hi Ciara,
Really useful video - thanks!
A couple of questions for you:
1. When you are searching for papers on one subtopic but you see a paper that you know will be relevant to another subtopic, do you ignore it expecting to find it when you end up searching for the other subtopic, or do you add it to your mendeley?
2. A lot of people use excel sheets to catalogue papers and notes, do you ever do this?
3. How do you remember which papers to cite for your points?
1. I usually add it to mendeley but don't read it at the time
2. Yes I do use the spreadsheets at time to track notes for different papers
3. I use a reference manager - bibtex and I use the above spreadsheet
How to get access to this document?
Thank you for your great guidence. I am learning a lot from you...........one request can you share its pdf
hey i need help i have to do a critical appraisal of a literature review in regards to my innovation. we have to choose a topic that will improve a patients /parents quality of life or something that raises awareness i have chosen music therapy for neonatal babies, the structure for this essay is introduction, themes, discussion and conclusion. i have found 9 articles that support the use of music therapy for parents and children and found themes such as 'does music help bonding' ' mt improved vital signs for the child' now i am unsure of how to write this as in the discussion section would i talk about the bias and my own thoughts and in the themes just what the authors found if the results were similar or not... help hope u understand what i am trying to ask x
Nice
iLovePhD thank you!
Thank I'm a DNP student and I'm struggling so thank you for this hopefully it's helpful since you're PHd Vs DNP
What's a DNP? 😊
@@PhDandProductivity Doctorates
in Nursing Practice
hi there, thanks for the information you have provided here. How long should it take a person to complete their literature review from start to end?. thanks
It really depends on the topic how much literature is available, as well depending on what else you are doing at the same time so for me I was working on different projects too so a couple of months.
How many papers did you read, let's say, for this exemplary subtopic?
For example I just downloaded 40 papers today about critical speed in marathon running
can you make a video that talks about how to do a search using the databases plzzzz
Edmond Au I have one using pub med 🤗
I am a master student , and i found it is so difficult to set a topic to start
Someone one day should build you a statue. Thank you very much for your time and efforts.
HAHHAHA that’s very kind of you!
Which word version you are using please. I am third year PhD student in the field of learner autonomy, actually I am lost I have written nothing yet...I am a failure I guess
I use pages, on Mac. You are definitely not a failure! Keep going.
Hi R a
If you come across this and you are struggling with your school work; be it essays or assignments, I would love to help. Feel free to email me at lohanwilliams25@gmail.com if you interested with such a service.
Also, I can prove my eligibility by sending you a few sample of my work.
Please what is the name of the program you used to write?
In this video I believe I'm using mac pages (similar to microsoft word but apple version), typically though I use LaTeX for writing papers/thesis.
@@PhDandProductivity Thank you I also use LaTeX for my papers.
hi your content help a lot but i kinda confused what is the difference between inclusion and exclusion
Hi Fatin, including is the papers you are going to use and exclusion is the papers you aren't going to use
@@PhDandProductivity thank you
hello i am writing a research paper on motivation. i need some articles that are related to this topic. i will be grateful you send me some. thanks
Hi Amar, my research is not in motivation so I wouldn't have those articles...
I love your videos but my TOC makes me want to rip my skin off when I hear you typing 🤣
lol sorry!
The content of your video is good but your presentation is poor. Suggestions:
(a) The first 2 minutes of your video should be removed. Get to the point of your video in the first few sentences.
(b) You talk as if you are not sure of what you want to say. It is difficult to follow what you are saying when you keep stopping to think.
(c) Don’t type and talk. Use large letters already typed, and just explain. Power Point could be useful.
I write this not to criticize but suggest improvements to your videos.
You smashed it as every single time!! I really like your content...Keep up the nice work
Thank you Ismahan!