Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Introduction versus Literature Review
I have started looking at the proposal paper and I have found it a bit confusing to differentiate between the introduction section and the literature review. In the past, I have always written and included the literature review as part of the introduction. At times I feel that I am mixing them up and it makes you want to think twice (or not more) about what you have written. It is quite hard to introduce your topic without some literature review to support it. I was wondering if some of you guys feel a similar way?
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Good question, Davidson. I think that having some reference in the intro is fine - but the point of the intro, in my mind, is to get the reader interested in reading the rest of the paper AND to provide them with a brief overview of what they will find in the rest of the paper. This is also a good place to use your non-academic sources, which don't carry the same weight as the academic sources you discuss in the lit review, but can sometimes contain really compelling info about your subject (especially in terms of relating it to broader public interest - as in news/magazine stories, etc.). Does that make sense????
ReplyDeleteYes, thanks for the clarification professor Grimes. It is a lot more clearer now. Since this is a proposal, and not a SSHRC application, are the use of jargon words allowed? Assuming we are writing a proposal to a particular audience/organization.
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