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Creating a literature review

This learning object will:

• Present the rationale for literature reviews.
• Identify some of the questions that a literature review can address.
• Consider ways of getting started.
• Look at ways to assess the quality of sources.

How does this relate to SaPRA?

Working through this learning object might help improve your confidence levels in the following SaPRA skills areas:

• Academic reading skills.

If you have not completed SaPRA yet, we recommend you do so - more details.

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• What is a literature review?
• Some of the questions a literature review can address
• Getting started
• Assessing the quality of sources
• How to discriminate between sources
• Expertise of the author: questions to ask
• Credibility of source: questions to ask
• Relevance of evidence
• What next?

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