from “English for Writing Research Papers”
provide readers with just the right amount of literature regarding the sequence of events leading up to the current situation
as support for the author’s approach.
“The authors do not seem to be aware of the state of the art, I strongly recommend they widen their literature search”
gradually prepared the readers for the focus of your work
问自己几个问题
- What are the seminal works on my topic? Do I need to mention these?
- What progress has been made since these seminal works?
- What are the most relevant recent works? What is the best order to mention these works?
- What are the achievements and limitations of these recent works?
- What gap do these limitations reveal?
- How does my work intend to fill this gap
self-assessment
you can ask yourself the following questions.
- Are the papers I have mentioned in a logical order? Is it clear why I have chosen these papers and not others?
- Have I removed any redundancy when reporting the literature?
- makes it easy for the reader to immediately identify the key points of the literature
