An Approach to Teaching the Production of a Literature review for a Student Research Report
Keywords:
literature review, academic, approach, ownershipAbstract
Technical and academic writing is a challenge and generally
not a popular activity amongst university students. Writing literature
reviews for student research projects is complex, both cognitively and
linguistically. It involves a range of skills including critical thinking,
problem solving and, of course, appropriate language knowledge. This
case study describes an approach designed to make this task more
accessible to novice student writers and to permit them to take some
ownership of the generative elements of producing the review. Initial
student feedback indicates a high level of satisfaction with the approach
and resulting grades.
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