Writing A Literature Review Of Cone And Foster

The biggest challenge in writing literature reviews is not being sufficiently critical. This is a challenge because only summarizing what you read is not enough. It is about providing a detailed justification for your research. Ultimately, Cone and Foster on page 103 state, “synthesize the information into a coherent review that highlights the main themes, strengths, and weakness of the work.” Moreover, I hope I gain the skill of filtering through various material and resources relevant to my thesis because I believe this is the best way to discard unimportant detail from my literature review. This will help demonstrate how certain parts of what I’ve read provide the foundation for the framework and motivation of my research. Overall, I understand that the relevance to my thesis of what I review

Likewise, another challenge is not discriminating between relevant and irrelevant materials pertaining to your topic. Cone and Foster in chapter six recommend using primary sources and read them yourself. By doing so, this will eliminate the idea of solely relying on others’ descriptions of studies and findings, which may steam from secondary sources. According to Cone an Foster on page 96 of the thesis handbook, it states, “reviewers too often cite studies erroneously, indicating the authors said something they did not say or did something they did not do.” After carefully reading this section I learned the best way to do this is to look up the original articles and read them myself. Then consider whether I agree with the secondary sources. Thus, if I don’t agree I am free to draw my own conclusions. Lastly, not keeping track of citations for the reference section in APA style can be a challenge. Cone and Foster state on page 102, “get in the habit of typing the citation one time and take the time to learn APA style for different