6.2 Reading Articles for the Literature Review

Beverley Glass

💡TIPs for Reading Articles for your Literature Review

Reading the Literature
  1. Read, summarize or describe each article noting your findings and impressions.
  2. Examine each article for strengths and weaknesses and validity of findings.
  3. Is the author objective? …
  4. Try to extract the unique concepts of the article that are central to a full understanding of the topic.

Activity 1️⃣⏰30 Minutes

📖 Read the following articles to give you some assistance as you begin reading your articles for your literature review.

Readings

1. Subramanyam, Art of reading a journal article: Methodically and effectively, 2013 Jan-Apr; 17(1): 65–70. Available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3687192/

2. How to Read Comprehensive Scientific Journal Articles. Peer-reviewed or scholarly journal articles are written in a very specific organized and formal way. If you haven’t spent much time with this type of literature, this video provides some tips for reading journal article. Available at https://researchguides.uoregon.edu/litreview/reading

 

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