{"id":465,"date":"2020-07-07T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-skills\/?p=465"},"modified":"2020-11-21T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T12:08:26","slug":"developing-your-literature-review-top-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-and-employability-skills\/2020\/07\/07\/developing-your-literature-review-top-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing your literature review - top tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Edinburgh has produced this excellent guide on how to develop and refine your literature review.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-466 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-skills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/07\/lit-review-top-tips.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-and-employability-skills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/07\/lit-review-top-tips.png 525w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-and-employability-skills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/07\/lit-review-top-tips-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-and-employability-skills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/07\/lit-review-top-tips-147x215.png 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Edinburgh has produced this excellent guide on how to develop and refine your literature review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":399,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dissertations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-and-employability-skills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/07\/dialog-148815_1280.png","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":468,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-and-employability-skills\/2020\/07\/06\/developing-your-literature-review-getting-started\/","url_meta":{"origin":465,"position":0},"title":"Developing your literature review - getting started","author":"Tom Reid","date":"July 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"What is a literature review? 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