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).