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Norton is telling me this is a 'known malicious website'. Andy can you either delete the link, if it is, or sort out its bona fides if it is not! - Thanks
sorry to be so off topic but does anyone know a method to log back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot the password. I love any tips you can offer me!
I think I should thank you officially in my thesis, because your videos have been helping me a lot more than my supervisor. Thank you for the great content 😊
Your videos put me in a good working attitude. I've been lately the overwhelmed about writing my thesis, to a point not sleeping and I was getting into a very bad circle. Thanks a lot Andy.
One thing I learned from doing a lit review for my masters - is wiork in sections - as you mentioned once, do a section and hand it in to supervisor. I agree - it helps prevent reviewing the paper in whole of 100 or so pages, flipping around to find where you wrote some thing, revising etc., and instead, review section at a time. Saves sanity
I just wanted to thank you for these videos, you've become my favourite academic youtuber by far. I began my PhD earlier this year, and I only realised at the end of 2020 how much the lack of indirect faculty/lab support due to this wild pandemic year, has hampered the quality of my work. I just did not know the calibre of what was expected of me in this new degree. You have been my buffer over this big learning curve of the first year, so thank you!
Andy I'm in 4th year of my PhD and your videos are so helpful and encouraging - allthough I've been marathoning a few and I think I'm now using them to procrastinate on actually writing my thesis haha... wish me lcuj!!
Thanks very much for the very constructive tips. My issue is whenver I read so many papers I got in an endless loop, when the authors of that particular paper are referencing and those papers are also intersting and contain many more other information that I could use for another point of interset and so on and so forth... I also use the table method where I summarize the most important points but I feel like it takes ages to get to read through the papers I actually aimed for.
Sir, do make a video on how to organise our data when doing literature review. I mean when we read a research paper , we think it's relevant and then we note down important points, now we are to cite this paper later on.... How to organise references , important points and how to connect them together to make a coherent flow of thought.
Say you are writing on one sub-topic and you want to include 15 pieces of information you previously made a note of after reading 10 papers, i would first summarize this information in a table or two, and this can help to see patterns more clearly than looking at your notes alone. With the pattern(s) now identified, start writing about the the pattern and you’ll find that your flow of thought is naturally more coherent. I hope that helps!
Love point 3 about the excel document (I use OneNote) and point 4 about visiting the lit review daily to keep thinking about it and refining the structure
Dr.Andy...you are amazing, I had been picking so much from your sharing. Perhaps you might want to have a separate video using Mendeley, Google Scholar, and RefNWrite in a quick overview to help those of us in the Literature Review development stage. A 3-in-1 writer solution process can help us quickly pick up the skills to get going
Thank you so much! Indeed watching this video as I'm working in my Literature Review at the moment made me realise the patterns I've been picking up while reading through papers. Cheers!
Thank you, very helpful for students, I will show it to them. I find they also like to see examples and therefore I have now uploaded the examples I created for them, with my commentary and feedback, it is then easy to see what makes a good literature review - Professor Egan
I just loved the clue about organizing your data in Excel. Same as you, I am not a good from-the-screen reader and I am frequently overwhelmed that I am missing something or I don't have a structure for my actions. Thank you. It is very useful.
@@rgal8791 I also keep searching and yesterday downloaded Zotero. I am getting used to it, but what I have learned is that you can organize your PDFs and books and easily insert references. What I loved is that you can register the document just by DOI ou ISBN and all the data (including a pdf, if provided) will be linked in the program. Saves a lot of time.
@@dashamesquita8300 Agree, I use Mendeley.Think our university provide support for Endnote. It is important to get it right from the start. Still feel I am at the start of the Matrix
I've just sent off a proposal for a PhD studentship so I'm in the waiting room at the moment.... but your videos are helping me realise that it's possible to do a PhD and it doesn't have to be so scary. So thank you for what you're doing for us!
Thank you very much! I will start my PhD in September and I am so happy that I found your great channel. I will be extremely grateful if you can make a vedio about the most useful apps that every PhD student should have.. thanks again for your effort .
I just want to come and say thank you for your great content! Your videos have helped me more than an entire semester of a Research theory class did 🙂 and even more than my advisors do !
Thank God I found this platform. I'm about to start my PhD thesis. Please I would like to know how many pages in average a phd thesis should be. Thank you
Thanks for the suggestions :) in the process of have to submit a draft of the lit review, this is after reading only 30-40 articles and I find it very difficult , your outline will help.
Great tips you give Andy, as always. In my PhD program it is mandatory to write a review on your subjet and they highly recommend you publish it. I did and I understand is a great way to learn about your topic.
This is a very difficult topic to be explained and you did it perfectly!!! I just realized (watching your video)that I have been following those steps unconsciously. Thanks from Brazil ✨
Thank u Dr Andy so much for each valuable advise u said u made my phd journey more interisting full of joy, your efforts are highly appreciated thanx alot
These are great suggestions. I’d like to add working with your academic/research librarian. Te can help with • Determining databases to search and determining the optimal search vocabulary • Searching specialized and grey literature • Using specialized bibliographic tracking software, e.g., EndNote and RefWorks After all, that’s what they do for a living.
Hi Andy, I think you are doing a fantastic job of helping PhD students with their journey. Could you please make a video in which you explain step 4 with an example? As in, take a paper and show us how you read it, make notes and make subtopics etc. Appreciate your help!
Mine was extremely difficult to pen down because I thought of the research problem from a lived experience than from an academically informed place. That lived experience led me to a field of study on international borders and borderlands. A transdisciplinary field I had no idea even existed! It's all coming together - painstakingly so - since my borderlands study has not yet been done in human geography, using Henri Lefebvre as the underpinning theoretical and conceptual framework.
Thanks for this upload! I was doubting if my approach with sections and subsections was correct, but your video made me stop doubting. Thanks again for the upload and have a great week.
Thank you so much for helping me and inspiring me forward. I am a designer, but a slightly dsylexic visual learner , so looking for advice on any visual documenting aids and mainly how to keep control of my biblopraphy as this is my biggest barrier I havn't a clue. Thanks so much again
I’m so glad I’ve stumbled upon your channel as it’s been immensely interesting and helpful as I’m in the process of planning my PhD. So I feel much more confident about my approach now! 😊
Great video, Andy. Thank you! 😎 I was awarded my PhD nearly 20 years ago but watched this to refresh my memory and get some tips about how best to perform a literature review. First video... BINGO! Got tons of ideas! 🙂 So thanks again. IM 😎 (Paul)
Thank you so much Dr andy, really these are advice of gold, please could you help me with your experience about how to formulate a Research question( research problem), hypothesis, and methodology. is it from the papers that you read or you invent a conceptual model and you prove it via theories? thank you in advance
Thank you for this video! I wrote a few literature reviews for different projects now, but I don't know why when it comes to my PhD project proposal, I find myself so lost and not knowing where to start. Did not realize that the step that was missing for me would be as simple as dividing my main theme into smaller topics! 🤣 So thank you for all these simple tips! Now i don't have any more excuses to procrastinate anymore... Sigh.
Useful tip on selecting the topics to be reviewed and brought together which my supervisor gave me - think of it as a Venn diagram: where each of the topics intersects - the sweet spot - is the research area. HTH. Love the videos, very impressed with all the AI powered tools now available, but you need to talk more about their limitations. The search results appear to be confined to journal articles in the main? Could not find conference papers, PhD theses or other sources in any of the searches, which is quite disappointing.
Thank you for this video. Can you do a video on feedback and what to do when you receive the feedback , the excel , great shout! I have finished and handed it in and I got my feedback but not sure what to do and how 🙈🙈
Thanks so much, Sir for your Great insights. I am, however, curious, how do we reference books that are not up to date that we nevertheless find great and inasightful?
Solar cell is fundamentally a pn junction. May I know what the paint actually did? Improving the efficiency or it somehow innovated to do the work without the traditional pn junction?
Dear Andy, I hope you're doing well, Thank you so much for being so awesome, and energetic. Also, for helping me so much with your great videos (since I'm applying for a Ph.D. position in the field of energy conversion (experimental research)). Kind regards and best wishes, Meisam. I.Z.
please can you make a video for undergraduate students doing their thesis too? btw love your content, i got to know about so much AI stuff for research thankss Andy
dear Andy, if i may ask you a question it would be ( can i include an inro on the literature review in the beginning of the Literature review Chapter?) the intro would explain the limitation to the review since my research is the first ever in my area. also the intro would mention the topics in part one of the literature and the part 2 . because it is 2 parts
Hi Andy, another great video! I am a little confused by your description of creating the Excel "cheatsheet", because in another video you described creating a Powerpoint slideshow of a similar nature for a similar purpose. Am I confused, or do you use both?
HI Michael - I use both for slightly different reasons. I use excel for documents and planning papers and my thesis. It allows me to quickly rearrange and add to one page of information. I use PowerPoint at the beginning of a new research area to quickly capture one paper per slide so I can start to put all relevant information in one place. I hope that helps blear thing up!
Thank you. During research there is a common saying which is either you succeed or you learn. Failure is not the end and you have to see it as part of the research and learning process.
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Norton is telling me this is a 'known malicious website'. Andy can you either delete the link, if it is, or sort out its bona fides if it is not! - Thanks
Immersive Translate is a valuable tool for the literature review process. This web plugin offers quick and accurate document translations.
Nicely put: "this is what someone has found; this is how it fits; this is how it relates to "my why".
"Perfection kills progress" are words I need to put on my wall above my computer as I start this PhD journey.
sorry to be so off topic but does anyone know a method to log back into an instagram account..?
I stupidly forgot the password. I love any tips you can offer me!
@@millermoshe787 why do you spam this message?
Ya. Imperfection and correction can be a great combination...
Perfection is one of my problems, and I progress slowly. thanks for mentioning that
@@SUL-KSA this is so me. I am very fastidious.
I think I should thank you officially in my thesis, because your videos have been helping me a lot more than my supervisor. Thank you for the great content 😊
Your videos put me in a good working attitude. I've been lately the overwhelmed about writing my thesis, to a point not sleeping and I was getting into a very bad circle. Thanks a lot Andy.
One thing I learned from doing a lit review for my masters - is wiork in sections - as you mentioned once, do a section and hand it in to supervisor. I agree - it helps prevent reviewing the paper in whole of 100 or so pages, flipping around to find where you wrote some thing, revising etc., and instead, review section at a time. Saves sanity
You are soooo god at explaining things. I watched an hour of my professor explaining a lit review and I was more confused by the end of it. Thank you
I just wanted to thank you for these videos, you've become my favourite academic youtuber by far. I began my PhD earlier this year, and I only realised at the end of 2020 how much the lack of indirect faculty/lab support due to this wild pandemic year, has hampered the quality of my work. I just did not know the calibre of what was expected of me in this new degree. You have been my buffer over this big learning curve of the first year, so thank you!
Thank you, Jude! It's comments like these that keep me motivated to produce videos!
Great video
Your explanation was much better than my professor's lecture. You give us clear baby steps. I'm a master student who stuck in the lit review
Same hehe
Same lol
Thank you so much for your contributions to all potential PhD candidates.
You're very welcome. Thank you for your support!
I'm going to have to mention you in my acknowledgments!! Thank you for this so much!!
the way you structure your videos is very intelligent and organised! absolutely love the black side bar where you put the key points covered
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I am in the middle of writing a Systematic Review now and I keep coming back to this video. Thanks Andy! This saved me
I appreciate that your window trim is well fitted to the shape of the stone's that make the opening.
I'm now at the thesis writing stage. I wish I could know your channel earlier... kind of more helpful than my supervisor.
Andy I'm in 4th year of my PhD and your videos are so helpful and encouraging - allthough I've been marathoning a few and I think I'm now using them to procrastinate on actually writing my thesis haha... wish me lcuj!!
Thanks very much for the very constructive tips. My issue is whenver I read so many papers I got in an endless loop, when the authors of that particular paper are referencing and those papers are also intersting and contain many more other information that I could use for another point of interset and so on and so forth... I also use the table method where I summarize the most important points but I feel like it takes ages to get to read through the papers I actually aimed for.
Sir, do make a video on how to organise our data when doing literature review. I mean when we read a research paper , we think it's relevant and then we note down important points, now we are to cite this paper later on.... How to organise references , important points and how to connect them together to make a coherent flow of thought.
I'll add it to the list!
that's a very good point
same is my request
Please and thanks!!
Say you are writing on one sub-topic and you want to include 15 pieces of information you previously made a note of after reading 10 papers, i would first summarize this information in a table or two, and this can help to see patterns more clearly than looking at your notes alone. With the pattern(s) now identified, start writing about the the pattern and you’ll find that your flow of thought is naturally more coherent. I hope that helps!
I loved this video, I had been looking for help to know how to structure a review paper . Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Love point 3 about the excel document (I use OneNote) and point 4 about visiting the lit review daily to keep thinking about it and refining the structure
Dr.Andy...you are amazing, I had been picking so much from your sharing. Perhaps you might want to have a separate video using Mendeley, Google Scholar, and RefNWrite in a quick overview to help those of us in the Literature Review development stage. A 3-in-1 writer solution process can help us quickly pick up the skills to get going
Best video I've watched on how to structure your literature review for science-focused PhD projects! Thank you so much
Thank you so much! Indeed watching this video as I'm working in my Literature Review at the moment made me realise the patterns I've been picking up while reading through papers. Cheers!
Thank you, very helpful for students, I will show it to them. I find they also like to see examples and therefore I have now uploaded the examples I created for them, with my commentary and feedback, it is then easy to see what makes a good literature review - Professor Egan
This should be required for every course on this topic!!!! Thank you! This really helps a beginner!!
I just loved the clue about organizing your data in Excel. Same as you, I am not a good from-the-screen reader and I am frequently overwhelmed that I am missing something or I don't have a structure for my actions. Thank you. It is very useful.
Just seen another video suggesting using Evernote, with Tags it is really useful when filtering
@@rgal8791 I also keep searching and yesterday downloaded Zotero. I am getting used to it, but what I have learned is that you can organize your PDFs and books and easily insert references. What I loved is that you can register the document just by DOI ou ISBN and all the data (including a pdf, if provided) will be linked in the program. Saves a lot of time.
@@dashamesquita8300 Agree, I use Mendeley.Think our university provide support for Endnote. It is important to get it right from the start. Still feel I am at the start of the Matrix
@@rgal8791 I know exactly what you are talking about)
I've just sent off a proposal for a PhD studentship so I'm in the waiting room at the moment.... but your videos are helping me realise that it's possible to do a PhD and it doesn't have to be so scary. So thank you for what you're doing for us!
A pleasure, Vickyy - good luck!
Thank you very much! I will start my PhD in September and I am so happy that I found your great channel. I will be extremely grateful if you can make a vedio about the most useful apps that every PhD student should have.. thanks again for your effort .
You are welcome!
I just want to come and say thank you for your great content! Your videos have helped me more than an entire semester of a Research theory class did 🙂 and even more than my advisors do !
Thank God I found this platform. I'm about to start my PhD thesis. Please I would like to know how many pages in average a phd thesis should be. Thank you
Thanks for the suggestions :) in the process of have to submit a draft of the lit review, this is after reading only 30-40 articles and I find it very difficult , your outline will help.
Great tips you give Andy, as always. In my PhD program it is mandatory to write a review on your subjet and they highly recommend you publish it. I did and I understand is a great way to learn about your topic.
As a Ph.D. student currently stressed about my lit review structure, I want to say THANK YOU!
Well done - specific, simple and relevant, thank you
This is a very difficult topic to be explained and you did it perfectly!!!
I just realized (watching your video)that I have been following those steps unconsciously. Thanks from Brazil ✨
I am liking all your videos the ones I watch, even the ones I didn't wacht, as appreciation for value and applicable information.
Thank u Dr Andy so much for each valuable advise u said u made my phd journey more interisting full of joy, your efforts are highly appreciated thanx alot
My pleasure
These are great suggestions.
I’d like to add working with your academic/research librarian. Te can help with
• Determining databases to search and determining the optimal search vocabulary
• Searching specialized and grey literature
• Using specialized bibliographic tracking software, e.g., EndNote and RefWorks
After all, that’s what they do for a living.
You're the big brother I've never had. Thanks Andy.
Any time, Florian!
Thank you so much! Your channel is pure gold! I am feeling better and ready to write my thesis
Thank you so much. Been quite anxious about it all. Very reassuring
This motivation is very helpfully and fresh, I mean is the real l life of a graduate student.
Thank you for the advice.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for your support!
Hi Andy, I think you are doing a fantastic job of helping PhD students with their journey. Could you please make a video in which you explain step 4 with an example? As in, take a paper and show us how you read it, make notes and make subtopics etc. Appreciate your help!
Mine was extremely difficult to pen down because I thought of the research problem from a lived experience than from an academically informed place. That lived experience led me to a field of study on international borders and borderlands. A transdisciplinary field I had no idea even existed! It's all coming together - painstakingly so - since my borderlands study has not yet been done in human geography, using Henri Lefebvre as the underpinning theoretical and conceptual framework.
Thanks Dr. Andy😊😊😊
Thanks for this upload! I was doubting if my approach with sections and subsections was correct, but your video made me stop doubting. Thanks again for the upload and have a great week.
your videos are very helpful. Thank you!
You're very welcome, Marilyn.
Thank you so much for helping me and inspiring me forward. I am a designer, but a slightly dsylexic visual learner , so looking for advice on any visual documenting aids and mainly how to keep control of my biblopraphy as this is my biggest barrier I havn't a clue. Thanks so much again
Thank you for making this video !
Top tip on the use of excel, is categorise them via a filter :)
beautifully designed
The best information's so far in literature review, thank you.
I’m so glad I’ve stumbled upon your channel as it’s been immensely interesting and helpful as I’m in the process of planning my PhD. So I feel much more confident about my approach now! 😊
Thank you again for sharing these with your peers, Dr. Andy!
Great video, Andy. Thank you! 😎 I was awarded my PhD nearly 20 years ago but watched this to refresh my memory and get some tips about how best to perform a literature review. First video... BINGO! Got tons of ideas! 🙂 So thanks again.
IM 😎 (Paul)
I LOVE YOUR PRESENTATION!!!!!
Me too! His explanation is VERY clear.
Thank you Andy. Your videos are life-changing!
Thank you so much Dr andy, really these are advice of gold, please could you help me with your experience about how to formulate a Research question( research problem), hypothesis, and methodology. is it from the papers that you read or you invent a conceptual model and you prove it via theories?
thank you in advance
You are amazing bringer of knowledgeable for so many who struggle with academic research writing
Thanks, Prof. It is a good lecture
Thank you so much. This video is really helpful to understand how to do the literature review..
Thank you for this video! I wrote a few literature reviews for different projects now, but I don't know why when it comes to my PhD project proposal, I find myself so lost and not knowing where to start. Did not realize that the step that was missing for me would be as simple as dividing my main theme into smaller topics! 🤣 So thank you for all these simple tips! Now i don't have any more excuses to procrastinate anymore... Sigh.
Thank you!!! Very informative !
Glad it was helpful!
Andy, I just love your work.
Such valuable advice. Thanks!
Thank for this clear presentation. Perfect also you do much of scientific research. Just about to start a literature review. Again, thanks alot.
I would be curious how you would integrate those new software applications you have shared into the lit rev process.
I would like to thank you very much because I am writing a proposal for an Architecture Ph.D. position and I did not know what should I do.
very helpful. thank you Andy
Thank you Sir for such a nice guidance
Thank you very much, so clear and effective.
Wonderful. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Useful tip on selecting the topics to be reviewed and brought together which my supervisor gave me - think of it as a Venn diagram: where each of the topics intersects - the sweet spot - is the research area. HTH. Love the videos, very impressed with all the AI powered tools now available, but you need to talk more about their limitations. The search results appear to be confined to journal articles in the main? Could not find conference papers, PhD theses or other sources in any of the searches, which is quite disappointing.
You have explained it very nicely. It's really helpful thankyou sir.🔥🔥
Dear Andy, I am so thankful for all Yours tips and info for PhD writing.
Happy to hear that!
Thank you for making this playlist!!
I was wondering if you will have an opportunity to make a playlist in the context of master research project
Thank you for this video. Can you do a video on feedback and what to do when you receive the feedback , the excel , great shout! I have finished and handed it in and I got my feedback but not sure what to do and how 🙈🙈
Thanks so much for your content Andy 🙏 so helpful and the ebooks are invaluable thanks for sharing your knowledge and helping us on our journey
significantly informative sir
Thanks Andy
Any time!
Thanks you Andy
Thanks so much, Sir for your Great insights.
I am, however, curious, how do we reference books that are not up to date that we nevertheless find great and inasightful?
Solar cell is fundamentally a pn junction. May I know what the paint actually did? Improving the efficiency or it somehow innovated to do the work without the traditional pn junction?
Thanks Dr love your video its help me much to prepairing my proposal for PHD -- love from UUM Malaysia
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This is one of my biggest mistake in my PhD... I didn't read is a system and not often... I feel it now in the writing process
Dear Andy,
I hope you're doing well,
Thank you so much for being so awesome, and energetic.
Also, for helping me so much with your great videos (since I'm applying for a Ph.D. position in the field of energy conversion (experimental research)).
Kind regards and best wishes,
Meisam. I.Z.
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Thanks so much Andy for giving us this confidence, the how-to and the tools we'll need to start with the Lit Review of our thesis! 🙏
please can you make a video for undergraduate students doing their thesis too?
btw love your content, i got to know about so much AI stuff for research
thankss Andy
dear Andy, if i may ask you a question it would be ( can i include an inro on the literature review in the beginning of the Literature review Chapter?)
the intro would explain the limitation to the review since my research is the first ever in my area. also the intro would mention the topics in part one of the literature and the part 2 . because it is 2 parts
GOOD WORK
Thank you for sharing valuable video
GOOD! ON THIS SECTION NOW.
Amazing content!
I'm pleased the content was so useful. Good luck with your literature review!
Hi Andy, another great video! I am a little confused by your description of creating the Excel "cheatsheet", because in another video you described creating a Powerpoint slideshow of a similar nature for a similar purpose. Am I confused, or do you use both?
HI Michael - I use both for slightly different reasons. I use excel for documents and planning papers and my thesis. It allows me to quickly rearrange and add to one page of information. I use PowerPoint at the beginning of a new research area to quickly capture one paper per slide so I can start to put all relevant information in one place. I hope that helps blear thing up!
Great advice!
That was a great . :) Can you please tell me how you handled failures during experiments or research work?
Thank you. During research there is a common saying which is either you succeed or you learn. Failure is not the end and you have to see it as part of the research and learning process.
@@DrAndyStapleton True!! By the way can i know about your PhD work?
Hi What to do if your supervisor left somewhere else and the new doesnot know about your reseasrch
Thank you so much.
Very helpful. Thank you, Andy.
Thumbs up for the algorithm! :P
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