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Engineering Literature Review

This guide provides an overview of the engineering literature review and its place in a research project, thesis, or dissertation.

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Literature Review Process

Planning for literature review

State your research topic and develop a search plan
- determine concepts and keywords to use when searching for information
- determine logic relation between the keywords
- determine where to search for information
- determine what kind of information is needed
- determine how to manage the retreived information

Literature search
Do your search and choose sources that seem relevant to your topic
Record your search
Record your searches in detail
Literature evaluate and analysis
- Get the big picture
- Save useful references
- Read for comprehension and take notes
Synthesize the literature