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Are you looking for some pieces of advice, which will be helpful for you in writing your literature review? May be this article is what you need? I think, that the suggestions, which are presented here will help you.

It is not very difficult to read this article (it will take about 5 minutes). So, turn on light music, make a cup of hot tea (or fresh juice) and start reading.

Very often students write a literature review, when they are writing their dissertation. In this case the length of your literature review should be about 20 pages. It is a full chapter and you should do it at high level.

It depends on you which structure for your literature review you will choose, you should remember only one thing – your main assignment is to prove that your work relates to other existed studies and that your work makes sense. It may be chronological or thematic. If you may present other way – you are welcome, just be sure that it is correct and correspond the rules.

The purpose of your literature review is not just enumerate the sources, you have used, but also you should demonstrate their impact on your project, express your opinion concerning the book and prove that his\her project is important and connected to the concrete field of study.

You should also take into consideration the fact for whom you write your literature review. You, students, very often write literature review like an additional part of your dissertation (thesis), so pay attention to the importance of your project and show, that you are aware about what you are writing. Be sure in your words and everything will be okay!

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!