• You should have a definite question that you are planning to address in your Literature Review, and it should be clear what that question is and why you are addressing it (i.e. make sure you provide context for your question at the start of the Literature Review by providing some relevant background information about the topic).
• Be as clear as possible in your writing. Ask yourself if someone unfamiliar with the topic would understand the points that you are trying to make. If the answer is no, then edit your text to make it clearer (and more logically structured) and/or to provide more details (e.g. examples to illustrate your statements, additional sentences to clearly link paragraphs together).
• You also need to balance being comprehensive enough to fully explain your thoughts/ideas with being concise enough to stay within the word limit. I will not be concerned if you are 200-300 words above or below the word limit. However, if you are more than 300 words above the word limit then you need to edit what you have written so that you are expressing your ideas/thoughts more concisely, and if you are more than 300 words below the word limit you need to consider whether you have explained things fully/clearly enough in all cases (but note that quality is more important than quantity, so don’t add superfluous words/sentences to your document just to increase your word count).
• Provide a clear methodology/protocol, which should provide clear details about how studies were selected for inclusion in the review, as well as your search strategy (similar to what you did for Assignment 1, but you are now designing a protocol for your own literature review, and then implementing it). Your protocol should be clear and explicit enough so that I could carry out your search and selection in the same way.
• Make sure that you use some Tables to help you summarise the most relevant results/patterns from the papers that you included in your review. You should refer to these Tables in the text of the document (i.e. you should use them to help you summarise/highlight some results/patterns in the papers that you have included in your review).
• Make sure that you write everything in your own words. If you are not 100% clear on what plagiarism is then consult the documents that I uploaded to Moodle, complete the short Plagiarism Quiz that I provided a link to on Moodle, and then check the answers to the quiz (also uploaded to Moodle).
• Cite all of the studies that you use in the Literature Review and then include full references in a Bibliography section at the end of the document (following standard scientific conventions – see the relevant information guide from the Library if you are not sure how to do this, or follow the format used in any of the papers that you have read).