Writing a Literature Review in the TIL- and BETA Domain

Date:

Time:

See below.

Location:

Utrecht

Lecturer:

Prof. Karst Geurs

Days:

2

ECTS:

0.5 (attendance + outline literature review) | 2 (attendance + passing assignment)

Course fee:

Free for TRAIL/Beta/OML/ERIM members, others please contact the TRAIL office

Registration:

See below – pre-registration.

Objectives:

To explain and support TRAIL participants how to write a literature review for a scientific journal in the TIL-domain. Day 1 can also be attended by students who do not aim to write a journal paper but intend to write a literature review chapter in their thesis.

Course description:

This course helps you to write a literature review paper. It explains types of literature reviews, the structure of literature review papers, gives tips and tricks, and discusses some example papers.

After day 1 you draft an outline of a literature review. Students attending Day 2 submit a full draft literature review paper. On day 2 we share and discuss experiences, and students present their literature review paper and others comment. Students commend on each other’s drafts. Attendance of Day 2 is for students who have submitted a draft literature review paper.

Assignment:

A draft journal paper (outline), to be finished / polished in collaboration with (daily) supervisor(s) after day 2.

Program:

Day 1

11:00                           Welcome, who is who? Aim course

11:15-11:45                  Introduction to writing a literature review

  • Why a literature review
  • Review versus overview
  • Which added value for the reader?
  • Journal choice

11:45-12:30                  Types of literature reviews

12:30 – 13:15               Lunch

13:15-14:00                  General structure

          • Which parts
          • Importance of introduction
          • Comparison to previous reviews (if applicable)
          • Methodological issues
          • ‘Empty tables’

14:00–15:00                 Tips and tricks

15:00-15:15                  Break

15:15–16:00                 Study of example papers: lessons learned

16:00–16:30                 Discussion / questions, partly based on example papers

16:30–17:00                 Agreements intermediate period

 

Day 2

11:00-12:30                  Presentations of papers plus discussion/feedback. Lessons learned by writing, reading, giving and receiving feedback. Focus on Scope, Added value and Search strategy

12:30-13:15                  Lunch

13:15-14:45                  Presentations of papers plus discussion/feedback. Lessons learned by writing, reading, giving and receiving feedback. Focus on Scope, Added value and Search strategy

14:45-15:00                  Evaluation

Literature:

Methodology:

Day 1: teaching. Intermediate period: writing a draft literature review (outline). Day 2: presentations of draft literature review paper plus feedback.

Course material:

Prerequiste:

Read the paper: Van Wee, B, and Banister, D. (2016), How to write a literature review paper. Transport Reviews, volume 36-2016, issue 2, pp.278-288. PDF download: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01441647.2015.1065456

Pre-registration form


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Contact

GP-OML office
Conchita van der Stelt
c.vanderstelt@rstrail.nl
+31(0)15 27 89256