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  1. How to Conduct an Effective Literature Review for Your EPQ: A Step-by

    Introduction. A literature review is an important component of any Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) project. IT involves researching and analyzing existing literature and scholarly works relevant to your topic. A well-conducted literature review can provide a solid foundation for your EPQ, helping you to identify gaps in the research, establish the context for your study, and build a ...

  2. What is a Literature Review?

    A literature review is a survey of scholarly sources on a specific topic. It provides an overview of current knowledge, allowing you to identify relevant theories, methods, and gaps in the existing research. There are five key steps to writing a literature review: Search for relevant literature. Evaluate sources. Identify themes, debates and gaps.

  3. How to Write a Literature Review

    Examples of literature reviews. Step 1 - Search for relevant literature. Step 2 - Evaluate and select sources. Step 3 - Identify themes, debates, and gaps. Step 4 - Outline your literature review's structure. Step 5 - Write your literature review.

  4. What is a literature review?

    A literature or narrative review is a comprehensive review and analysis of the published literature on a specific topic or research question. The literature that is reviewed contains: books, articles, academic articles, conference proceedings, association papers, and dissertations. It contains the most pertinent studies and points to important ...

  5. Literature Review: The What, Why and How-to Guide

    What kinds of literature reviews are written? Narrative review: The purpose of this type of review is to describe the current state of the research on a specific topic/research and to offer a critical analysis of the literature reviewed. Studies are grouped by research/theoretical categories, and themes and trends, strengths and weakness, and gaps are identified.

  6. EPQs: finding and using evidence

    The first step in answering a research question is usually to do a 'literature review' or 'research review'. These articles focus on the 'research review' type of EPQ, in which collecting and analysing evidence from what other people have written will be a major part of what you do. Researchers need to do research reviews for two ...

  7. What is a Literature Review? How to Write It (with Examples)

    A literature review is a critical analysis and synthesis of existing research on a particular topic. It provides an overview of the current state of knowledge, identifies gaps, and highlights key findings in the literature. 1 The purpose of a literature review is to situate your own research within the context of existing scholarship ...

  8. How to Write an EPQ Essay

    Writing an EPQ essay can seem like a daunting task, which is why we've written this nine-step guide to help make the whole process easier. In addition to the A-Levels you're already doing, you can choose to take an EPQ (Extended Project Qualification). An EPQ is an independent research project, and it's extremely beneficial as it counts ...

  9. Writing a Literature Review

    A literature review is an integrated analysis of scholarly writings that are related directly to your research question. Put simply, it's a critical evaluation of what's already been written on a particular topic.It represents the literature that provides background information on your topic and shows a connection between those writings and your research question.

  10. EPQs: writing up your dissertation

    9) EPQ series: Charlotte on facing the blank page. Writing clearly. Good writing takes time, effort and energy. Being able to produce clear, readable, logical and well-argued pieces of writing is important in both university and in your working life. Precise & concise. Keep it simple. A word about style. Plagiarism.

  11. PDF EPQ Resources Assessing a Literature Review Aspects of the literature

    1 20 to 25 sources is a minimum suggestion to ensure that there is a good depth and breadth of literature - many students use more sources than this 2 There is a super guide to the Harvard referencing system available from the Open University here:

  12. PDF Science and the EPQ

    Nuffield Research placements and laboratory work experience placements do not always sit easily with the EPQ. A student completing a CREST award probably does not need to do an EPQ as they will have research experience. Unless the planning of the project is complete before the placement it is difficult for the EPQ process to be demonstrated ...

  13. A Complete Guide to the EPQ

    The Extended Project Qualification, or EPQ, is offered by many schools, and it's a standalone qualification that's a bit like a mini-thesis. You're allowed to choose whatever topic you like - it doesn't even have to be related to your A-levels - so it's about as flexible as you can get. It's unlikely to be included in your ...

  14. Assessing the EPQ literature review

    Assessing the EPQ literature review. Here's a short, one-sided student-friendly assessment grid to help Level 3 Extended Project students assess the quality of their literature review. All they need to do is simply circle a mark from 0 (non-existent) to 5 (absolutely fantastic) for each of the elements identified as being important in a ...

  15. PDF EPQ Checklist & Guidance. Completed Projects must have: 1.) signed by

    relevant literature/data sources and explanations of key terms (perhaps given in a glossary) and analytical techniques that will be used in the project. This will be based mainly on work learners produced for the project proposal. In the example discussed previously the introduction would consist of a re-draft of the project proposal together

  16. Literature review EPQ format

    For my EPQ I created two tables, one for sources I read and did use and for ones I read and didn't use. I recommend doing a literature review for the each page you did w.g. if you wrote 16 pages (not including titles and bibliography) do a literature review for 16 of your sources (this can be split between ones you used and ones you did not use).

  17. PDF Extended Project Qualification Survival Guide

    Who will support me with the EPQ? Mrs Sophie Matthews is the EPQ Centre Coordinator. She and other staff members also act as EPQ Supervisors and are allocated Supervisor. Your supervisor acts as a guide on the process of the EPQ, rather than as a guide on the content. You can ask Heads of Department and other teachers for suggestions of

  18. Literature Review for Introduction Vs. Discussion

    A literature review presents a summary of studies related to a particular area of research. It identifies and summarizes all the relevant research conducted on a particular topic. Literature reviews are used in the introduction and discussion sections of your manuscripts.However, there are differences in how you can present literature reviews in each section.

  19. EPQ literature review

    The literature review in a dissertation is usually used to compare contrasting source opinions in terms of agreement and disagreements, evaluating the validity of source and stuff like that. But my topic doesn't have contrasting views significant enough to mention and plus I can write about the evaluation of sources in my source table.

  20. How to Undertake an Impactful Literature Review: Understandi

    Downloadable! Literature reviews lay the foundation for academic investigations, especially for early career researchers. However, in the planning phase, we generally lack clarity on approaches, due to which a lot of review articles are rejected or fail to create a significant impact. The systematic literature review (SLR) is one of the important review methodologies which is increasingly ...

  21. Three Lives Entwined by Tragedy

    Set in Portland, Maine, the novel opens in a women's prison book club full of caustic inmates whose spirited discussions reveal a thick vein of humor and a weary compassion. According to Violet ...