《硕士博士英语毕业论文写作》Chapter7LiteratureReview.ppt

A good paraphrase “is significantly different from the wording of the original, without altering the meaning at all”. (Bailey, 2003: 21) 1. Changing the word 2. Changing the word class 3. Changing the word order 1. Identify key words. 2. Search the library for holdings (i.e., journals and books), e.g. ERIC, PsycINFO, Sociofile, the Social Science Citation Index, Google Scholar, ProQuest, CD-ROM. 3. Locate about 80/300 reports of research in articles or books related to research on your topic. 4. Skim whether the article or chapter will make a useful contribution to your understanding of the literature. 5. Designing a literature map. 6. Draft summaries of the most relevant articles. 7.Assemble the literature review, structuring it thematically or organizing it by important concepts. End the literature review with a summary of the major themes and suggest how your particular study further adds to the literature. Purpose: learners’ test taking performance under genuine test conditions. Problem: neither feasible nor desirable to collect data during task performance Research design: The subjects read a passage in the target language, and then completed a multiple choice test. The researcher then interviewed the students, and encouraged them to think about and report to her the reasons why they have given particular responses. Findings: Multiple choice tests do not always accurately reflect the language processing abilities of the test-takers. * * Yang (2014: 145）studied research articles in four major linguistic journals by applying Swales (1990) move analysis, arriving at the findings as follows; * Yang (2014: 146）studied research articles in four major linguistic journals by applying Swales (1990) move analysis, arriving at the findings as follows; * * * * * Zhencong Liu Week 7 Literature Review Definition Purposes Structure Steps Problems Strategies/Guidelines A literature review is an account of what has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and