Literature Review
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 6
- Convenor: to be confirmed
- Assessment: a 5000-word literature review (excluding bibliography)
Module description
The literature review gives you an opportunity to outline and evaluate an area of contemporary academic discussion or debate.
Your information sources should be based primarily on academic material, although case studies and illustrative material are welcome.
The outline of your literature review will be checked by a literature review co-ordinator, and once it has been approved you will be able to start work on your review unsupervised.
Learning objectives
Skills development
- Academic reading strategies
- Synthesis of sources
- Critical analysis
- Literature searching
- Database use, referencing and citation management
- Developing and writing an extended argument
- Peer review