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Literature Review for Dissertation!!
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My dissertation is due in on the 30th march and so far im not doing tooo brilliantly! Im doing it on Anti social behaviour and Asbos and if young people understand them.
Im stuck on my literature review, I have no clue what im supposed to do, what im supposed to write about, or what im supposed to use i.e. books, web etc!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
AFA
Im stuck on my literature review, I have no clue what im supposed to do, what im supposed to write about, or what im supposed to use i.e. books, web etc!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
AFA
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As for what to use - more or less anything you feel is academically rigorous enough and relevant to your topic - government reports, thinktank and charity reports, youth offending service reports etc. as well as academic books and journal articles. Yes, you can use things from relevant organisations' websites, but if you're downloading PDFs of reports or leaflets, it probably looks better if you cite them as if you had them in a hard-copy format (because academics are snobs ).
This is quite a nice summary of what a lit review is all about: http://www.ssdd.uce.ac.uk/learner/New%20page.htm
Basically you should read shit loads - textbooks, research - journal articles (original ones to give a view of the current thoughts and ideas on the subject, review articles to give you an overview and help you find more original articles to read).
You can use web sources but you need to be quite selective in the ones you use eg don't even think about wikipaedia! You need to find professional sources - possibly Police websites, government ones that kind of stuff.
How many words have you got to do?!
:yes: I was stunned at how many of my students cited from Wikipedia in their essays last year...saying that it can be quite good to find relevant links to more reliable sources
I have alot of government stuff its just trying to read it all. The literacture review has to be 1500 words and the dis in total has to be 10,000. So far I have 3000.
Don't get me wrong, wiki is excellent for getting your head around things and getting a basic understanding of pretty much everything but it can't be trusted.
That in itself is a shame, if it or just sections could be regulated or given some kind of accreditiation it would be an even more excellent resource but i cant see it happening!