1, at home to access and download the literature
Some students with a bit of thesis common sense know that the country's several well-known literature sites, such as Knowledge Networks, Wanfang, and so on, so how do we access and download their own need for literature through these sites?
(1) First of all, you need to have the permission to use Zhi.com and Wanfang.
For the higher level universities in China, all of them have purchased such databases. If you are in school, you only need to connect your device to the campus network, log in to the school's electronic library platform, and enter the Chinese database interface to use it for free. Of course, the specific operation of the design of the official website of each university shall prevail.
(2) Second, how to find the literature you need?
The search interfaces of Zhi.com and Wanfang are similar to each other, and it's easier for college students to get started by typing in keywords, journal names, and authors' names that are relevant to their own searches. In comparison, the data on ZhiWang is more comprehensive, and the advanced search settings are more reasonable. In addition to searching for subjects and authors, you can also set the requirements for journal types and years of literature, so the audience is also more extensive.
2. Literature reading and review writing
(1) Literature management
So for undergraduate graduates, the total amount of literature is not large it is recommended that the literature is printed out, and the statements that need to be highlighted with the traditional color marker pen to be sketched and annotated. After that, then use the file bag and note pads, paper literature for classification management, research direction is more similar to put into a case folder, and note pads to be labeled.
But for students who have too much need for literature, or who are very accustomed to e-reading, paper reading has more disadvantages. This kind of students suggest that the first thing they need to improve their own hardware equipment: tablet. For graduate students, the tablet is basically a must-have product for every dealing with literature. In addition to the right size, easy to flip through, but also can do a simple outline and be saved.
(2) literature review
So much literature, for students in a hurry how to complete the reading in a short period of time, and can efficiently write the review?
Tip 1: Read the abstract. Abstract highly summarizes the background of an article, methodology, conclusions, often only read the abstract to understand the article according to the value of reading, if the direction of their own research is more consistent in the depth of reading.
Skill two: find literature in the literature. In addition to the abstract, the reference literature in the review part is also need to pay close attention to the part, because the reference literature and their own selection of the topic is closely linked, so the article's own references are likely to be applicable to their own articles, the bibliography of the article read as a clue to further search for available material, will greatly improve the efficiency of the work with half the effort.
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