Literature Review: Support for Higher Degree Research: Evaluate

By evaluating you can:

• Develop an understanding of the multiple perspectives within your discipline. Your research may well cut across one or more disciplines.
• Adopt a systematic approach to collecting information. Use an appropriate selection criteria.
• Distinguish between different information resources (e.g. peer-reviewed, professional, trade or popular journals).
• Assess the quality, accuracy, relevance, bias, authority and credibility of the articles/material that you find.
• Read critically, identifying key points and arguments.
• Relate what you have found to your original search strategy and adapt the search strategy as appropriate.
• Critically appraise and evaluate your own findings and those of others.