An efficient Literature Review is about balance.
Reading - Writing - Thinking.
3 signs your research is out of balance:
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Reading - Writing - Thinking.
3 signs your research is out of balance:
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Type 1: The Perpetual Learner
They read and take notes. They are smart.
But there is a lingering: "Am I good enough?" in the background...
Only writing can answer this question.
Writing forces to rethink what you know.
It reveals what you don't know and helps grow.
They read and take notes. They are smart.
But there is a lingering: "Am I good enough?" in the background...
Only writing can answer this question.
Writing forces to rethink what you know.
It reveals what you don't know and helps grow.
Can't get off the ground with writing?
Try to break down your notes into small concepts and questions.
Treat them as puzzle pieces.
Once you have a few, toss them into a new outline.
Flesh out the outline and you are done!
This might help:
Try to break down your notes into small concepts and questions.
Treat them as puzzle pieces.
Once you have a few, toss them into a new outline.
Flesh out the outline and you are done!
This might help:
https://twitter.com/Artifexx/status/1613858819158806530
Type 2: The Biased Scientist
You're excellent at what you do.
You had great insights wrote about them.
But this can be a curse.
How can you stay relevant without adding NEW knowledge?
It's time to apply your beautiful mind to a NEW problem!
You're excellent at what you do.
You had great insights wrote about them.
But this can be a curse.
How can you stay relevant without adding NEW knowledge?
It's time to apply your beautiful mind to a NEW problem!
If you are settled in your opinions, try to discover NEW literature.
Challenge your train of thought.
Go on a discovery journey across literature.
Here is a system for this:
Challenge your train of thought.
Go on a discovery journey across literature.
Here is a system for this:
https://twitter.com/Artifexx/status/1632277025472888833
Type 3: Stuck in Review
Reading and Writing is just summarizing.
New insights are connections between facts you summarize.
You miss out of them if you don't take time to think.
Take one day where you replace CONSUMING with CREATING.
Reading and Writing is just summarizing.
New insights are connections between facts you summarize.
You miss out of them if you don't take time to think.
Take one day where you replace CONSUMING with CREATING.
If you are stuck in sumarizing, it's time for new techniques to boost creativity:
Connect your ideas heavily.
New connections are new insights.
This is one of them:
Connect your ideas heavily.
New connections are new insights.
This is one of them:
https://twitter.com/Artifexx/status/1627623856759312385ΓΈ
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And effortlesslitreview.carrd.co for discovering new literature.
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