Saturday, December 19, 2009

Do you have any advice pls? I'm having trouble doing a literature review. Need to compare two articles.?

Need to compare theoretical stance and the way the authors use evidence to support their theories.





I'm going cross-eyed!Do you have any advice pls? I'm having trouble doing a literature review. Need to compare two articles.?
For a lit review: read the 2 articles, making note of each article's thesis/hypothesis, methods, findings, and conclusions (if hypothesis was supported by research/review), limitations of both articles in scope of supporting the thesis....To compare the two you should provide more information about the type of articles so that it's easier to help you, but compare what each article proposes and their findings...if one is pro something compare the pros of it and if the other is con compare the cons (pro/con comparison)...your conclusion should assess the ability of each article to support the article thesis...





find the theoretical stance of each author, the method for supporting the theory and compare how well each author completed this task. take notice of limitations...





hope that was helpful...Do you have any advice pls? I'm having trouble doing a literature review. Need to compare two articles.?
If this is an academic review of scientific literature, it might help if you made that manifest in your question. Assuming for the moment that it is, finding literature that reports comparable methodologies in different fields might be the straightforward approach. It's no good comparing epidemiological studies of human disease, to ethnological studies of human language, because there is nothing common about the deeper methodology, method of proof, or accepted technique. But comparing an epidemiological study of human disease to a study of pollution could be valid, since the underlying methodologies are similar, but may support different theoretical stances.

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