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Guide to an engineering Ph.D. literature review

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Contemplating a literature review? Remember these sage tips from Ph.D. dissertation help guides. “What do researchers know? What do they not know? What has been researched and what has not been researched? Is the research reliable and trustworthy? Where are the gaps in the knowledge? When you compile all that together, you have yourself a literature review.” ― Jim Ollhoff, How to Write a Literature Review. As you write the Ph.D. engineering literature review, ensure you follow these tips to showcase your ideas  (Jensen) : Compare and contrast views of different authors; critique previous research work; reveal lapses in existing research; shed light on how your work relates to previous work; state problems, conflicts, debates, gaps; define a research area in a new way; and, probe previous work’s results. You must structure your lit review. Yes, these are the 2 ways you can arrange your  Ph.D. literature review .  A chronological structure lists the order of publicat

Citing authors of printed books

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A ready reckoner for academic writers. You have created your bibliography but now you are in a quandary about citations; you have specific questions as to whether one has to cite all authors or just the first two authors. In this blog,  PHD Assistance experts  provide a reference table on how to cite references (printed books only) the right way particularly for one and more than one author. The scope of this blog is limited to parenthetical citations (in-line or in-text citations) from printed books; hence, this article does not cover other nitty-gritties such as citing databases, images, newspapers, no known authors, online, etc. CMS (or Chicago), APA, and MLA —these are the popular style manuals we particularly cover and show you how they vary when it comes to citations. Here is a quick snapshot of their usage for one, two, and more than two authors. A  citation is not required  if common sense and ethics dictates so; for example, you do not need to cite common say