<aside> 💡 This literature review guide includes general recommendations when developing an academic text for research purposes. You may access timestamps for each of the sections below by visiting the YouTube page of this video.

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https://youtu.be/xpTbQKUDL4I

What to do

• APA formatting
• Citations (APA, 7th edition)
• Third person
• Things to do when submitting your final draft.

What not to do

• Words to avoid
• Passive voice
• In the most cases, avoid the future tense.
• Personal (subject) pronoun overuse
• Hedging too much and not enough
• There is/there are...
• How long should paragraphs be?
• Anthropomorphisms/personification

How to Link Key Points Stated in Thesis Statement

<aside> 💡 Try to explicitly link the two-four key points from the thesis point throughout the rest of your literature review. There are two ways of going about this: 1) stating the two-to-four key points from the thesis statement to the (level II headings) that define the main sections of your theory or 2) mention () the key points within each of the main sections throughout.

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• Aligning main sections (level II headings) of the literature review with the thesis statement
• Discussing "what", "how", "why", "when", "with whom", etc. about each of the two-to-four key points in each of the main (two-to-four) sections of your literature review.