{"id":3265,"date":"2016-11-01T04:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/research-methods\/?page_id=3265"},"modified":"2016-11-01T04:02:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:02:34","slug":"literature-review-strategy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/research-methods\/modules-1-3\/module-2-literature-review\/literature-review-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature review strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is your literature review strategy?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Once you have refined your topic and decide on the research question, next you need to work out what kind of literature you need to review to help you answer that question.
\nFor example, if you have Government policy and the impact on aid funds to Sub-Saharan Africa, then you are going to need to research the gaps systematically. In this case you’d need to look at literature on government policy and aid funds. There may be literature on its impact on other parts of the world, like South East Asia. Or there may be literature on trends in aid funds to Sub-Sahara Africa.\n<\/p>\n

Another way to find literature is to “snowball”. If you find an article which examines something you have a lot of interest of, there are two things you should look at:\n<\/p>\n