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1. If your tutor doesn’t push you/put you in a state of relaxation, it’s advisable to push yourself.
I always set deadline for myself, and then force myself to report my progress to my tutor regularly.
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2. If it is painful to read the literature, it is recommended to use the screenshot translation function of Youtao Translation and Sogou Document Translation to speed up the reading speed.
Focus must be read while making notes (in the PDF directly marked or summarised in the document inside), easy to turn back later to add citations or and other similar topics in the literature for comparison.
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3. Not sure how many words to write, the first look at the handbook must have written the word limit (such as the minimum number of words and the recommended number of words). The ratio of words in each section can be searched and adjusted by yourself.
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4. If the topic is a literature review, you need to screen a lot of literature to find literature, it is recommended to use scopus keyword screening and export Excel, and then look at each part of the abstract and conclusion to further screen the literature.
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5. If you don’t know how to write the structure/idea/content, you can find a representative paper and imitate the structure. Each type has almost the same limitation, for example, doing a questionnaire survey will definitely be
If you only do it in part of the field or region, the conclusion may not have broad and data are cross-sectional lacking longitudinal comparisons over time etc. limitation.
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6. Some of my tutor’s suggestions that can be used
methodology focuses on WHAT you did rather than HOW you will do.
An important principle throughout the text is the need to explain and give reasons for every choice you make. For example, why you chose the topic, why you only sifted through the literature for a specified period of time, why you did questionnaires rather than interviews, etc.
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