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+title: "Reviewing"
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+# Purpose of Literature Review
+* Integral part
+* Benefits
+	* Helps formalize research question
+	* Identifies strengths/weaknesses with current work and how they can be improved upon
+	* Identify accepted methodology/research plan or helps improve your own
+	* Increases knowledge of area
+	* Contextualizes your research in terms of existing work
+	* Need for related work section of writeup
+
+# How to Identify a Topic
+* Provided for you
+* An Idea
+* Identified from reading papers/listening to presentations
+* Start with broad area of interest and narrow down
+
+# How to review
+* Focus is on research problem
+	* What is already known on the subject?  Are there any gaps?
+	* What questions have been asked? Are they all answered?
+	* Are there flaws or limitations with previous work.
+	* Is future work mentioned?  Has it been done?
+	* Are there new techniques that can be applied to the research?
+
+# Process
+1. Search the existing literature
+2. Review and summarize the current work
+3. Develop a theoretical framework
+4. Develop a conceptual framework
+
+# Search the Existing Literature
+* Compile a list of keywords to search
+	* Initial keywords will not be enough
+	* Additional search terms will be identified as you go
+* Create a reading list
+* Use research databases to find papers
+	* Conference
+	* Journals
+	* Books
+	* Etc.
+
+# Finding a Relevant Paper
+* Use title and abstract are a good place to start for relevancy
+* Intro (near end) and conclusion often highlights the key points of the paper
+* Related work section and citations will help find additional work
+* Google Scholar functionality identifies who cited the paper and is useful for finding additional work
+
+# Review and Summarize the Current Work
+* Examine critically
+* What methodology did they use?
+* Are there flaws with the methodology or conclusions?
+* Do results generalize?
+* Are results consistent between papers?
+* Are there unanswered questions or future work?
+* Where is little known?
+
+# Spotting Good Papers
+* Some indicators of good papers (but imperfect):
+	* Authors
+	* Conference
+	* Citation count
+* Finding good conferences
+	* Ask advisor
+	* [CORE](https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal)
+* [SCIgen](https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/#about)
+* Reading lots of papers and familiarizing oneself with an area and its methodology is the best way to spot good/bad papers
+
+# Developing Theoretical and Conceptual Framework
+* Read with specific purpose in mind
+* Identify and order by themes and theories present (theoretical framework)
+* Literature ranges from very general to very narrow
+* Select aspects from theoretical framework to form conceptual framework
+
+# Writing a Literature Review
+* Describe and organize by various theories
+* Specify gaps in existing knowledge area	
+	* When writing related work, this provides motivation and reason for how your work adds to existing knowledge body
+* Highlight recent advances and state-of-the-art, and current trends
+* Summarize findings from existing studies
+
+# Writing a Literature Review (continued)
+* Cite the work you are discussing and summarizing
+* Use appropriate citations style
+	* IEEE Cite as you write
+	* Author Year
+* Paper space is finite.  Most important (related) work must be cited, other work may not need to be (may require justification)
+
+# Process Notes
+* Research process order is flexible
+* Literature review may be performed later, but
+	* Must have enough prior knowledge of subject
+	* Otherwise, taking a chance
+
+# References
+* Based on: Research Methodology: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners  4th Ed. by Ranjit Kumar, 2014. ISBN: 978-1446269978