How to Fail Your Literature Review
This article is a kind of trick, which will help you relax, have fun and will prevent you from possible mistakes, which you may do while writing your literature review. You know, sometimes you should not take everything too much seriously and it will be better.
So, this time I will give you several pieces of advice “ab absurdo”. You should read them and do everything conversely. If you notice that the situation is very similar to yours, you should think about it. May be it is better to change something in order not to fail everything!
Well, when writing your literature review, you should:
- Use “too-smart” expressions in order to underline your awareness of the subject!
- Do not follow the logical connection in your phrases – write everything that comes to your mind;
- Write a lot of information about the authors, whose works you have used;
- Do not write your personal opinion on the subjects – your ideas are not interesting for anyone;
- Retell the information from the sources, your readers are eager to know more about the works of other authors, than about yours;
- Make it as long as possible – in such case your readers will believe, that you have used a lot of sources!
In fact, these points turn out to be the most frequent mistakes many students do. Even if they know a lot of interesting information, they cannot present it in the best and necessary way. You should be better! You should be smarter! Try not to repeat such mistakes, and be good at writing a good literature review!