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Is Utilizing AI Tools for Conducting Literature Reviews in Academic Research Advisable?
Recently, I've come across various AI tools that claim to assist in conducting literature reviews by quickly summarizing research papers, identifying key themes, and even suggesting relevant ...
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How to choose relevant literature for literature review in grant proposal?
I am currently working on a grant proposal that also asks for a literature review. Now, when it comes to literature reviews, I have always had a problem with selecting what is relevant enough to be ...
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How to do a literature review on practical research (thesis)?
Some background, for my bachelor of science degree I have to do a practical research (thesis) for a company that develops software.
At the end of my Introduction chapter I arived at the following ...
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Can I cite almost total literature survey from a textbook unit?
Suppose I'm writing a research paper on topic T.
Additionally, suppose there is a textbook or research paper on topic T that covers all the progress of the topic from its initial time to 2018 ...
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How to read without specific purpose?
Posting for a friend, but in first person for simplicity.
I am a research master student in linguistics of a particular language. In my bachelor thesis and some coursework I specialised on a very ...
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What strategies are there for finding literature for a literature survey when the terminology used is diverse?
I want to write a literature survey on a topic, let's say it's risk of crime due to a new technology, let's say due to the Gutenberg press. However, when I search for the overall theme (crime and "...
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Literature review both by keywords in title and sorting by publishing date
Is there any free online databases where I can do literature review by
(1) giving keyword(s) that occur in title
(2) at the same time, sorting by publishing date from newest to oldest?
I found ...
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Literature review and originality
Everyday there are hundreds of papers published worldwide in every single area of study. I am mostly interested in architecture and environmental psychology.
A question arises how to assure that we ...
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Literature review in thesis and research paper
What are the major differences between a thesis and research paper literature review? Despite the volume of literature citations between thesis and research article what are the other major ...
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Ideas for and approaches to adding value to literature reviews
One of the tasks in my short-to-mid-term plan is to convert my dissertation into several research papers. In this context, I was thinking about extracting my dissertation's literature review (which is ...
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How to locate most important literature in an unfamiliar area
I'm a pre-doctoral researcher (does it exist?) figuring out my true interests and learning the craft. When I start exploring a new (that is, unfamiliar) area, I try to find the most influential ...
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How to 'stay up to date' in your field?
In academia, it's important to stay up to date with the latest 'hot' hypotheses in the your field. By 'hot', I mean the hypothesis that are most important/topical/relevant/popular. Perhaps the best ...
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How should I ask for library services for literature review?
Early on the research planning process, I would like to make use of the services offered by public libraries. Including online library services, what is the best way they could help a student ...
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How can I express "I can't find any papers written about this"?
I'm an undergraduate writing a paper for a philosophy course in logic. My paper is exploring a relationship between Leibniz' logic and graph theory. In writing the paper, I've found some material in ...
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Non-English literature: should we check for prior work?
How far should we go when considering the possibility that a (non spectacular, bur relevant) result has already appeared in any other language different from English?
Is it safe to ignore non-English ...
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