Sara E. McClellan, Ph.D.
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Collecting Initial Thesis Literature

  • Build from your initial outline to identify important sub-topics.
  • Read only abstracts, headings, charts, and conclusions to decide whether you want to file an article for future reading and use in your thesis (spend just 5-10 minutes scanning each article at this point).
  • Use reference lists from recent articles to quickly identify more relevant literature.
  • Review other PPA thesis papers on similar topics.
  • F​ile all relevant articles for future reading and store citation information in references/bibliography program (e.g., EndNote).
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