Rapid Academic Writing

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Contributing Authors

1. Let's Get Writing

1.1. The 5 C Guidelines

1.2. How to Write Articles Quickly and Expertly

1.2. The Publishing Process

1.3. Crafting a Research Agenda

2. Critical Thinking

2.1. Critical Thinking in the Classroom

2.2. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions

2.3. Good Logic

3. APA for Novices

3.1. Hoops and Barriers

3.2. Crafts and Puzzles

3.3. The Papers Trail

3.4. The Fine Art of Sentencing

3.6. Small Stressors

4. Literature Reviews

4.1. Introduction to Literature Reviews

4.2. What is a Literature Review?

4.3. How to Get Started

4.4. Where to Find the Literature

4.5. Evaluating Sources

4.6. Documenting Sources

4.7. Synthesizing Sources

4.8. Writing the Literature Review

4.9. Concluding Thoughts on Literature Reviews

Technical Tutorials

Constructing an Annotated Bibliography with Zotero

Extracting Resource Metadata from a Citation List with AnyStyle.io

Exporting Zotero to a Spreadsheet

Index of Topics

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Literature Reviews

A series of literature review steps

The chapters in this section are adapted from the open textbook Literature reviews for education and nursing graduate students by Frederiksen and Phelps, which was licensed under a CC BY license. The original open textbook may be cited and found at the following location:

Frederiksen, L., & Phelps, S. F. (n.d.). Literature reviews for education and nursing graduate students. PressBooks. Retrieved from https://edtechbooks.org/-mj

Introduction to Literature Reviews What is a Literature Review?How to Get Started Where to Find the Literature Evaluating Sources Documenting Sources Synthesizing Sources Writing the Literature Review Concluding Thoughts on Literature Reviews

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Access it online or download it at https://edtechbooks.org/rapidwriting/literature_reviews.