Unit 1 - First orientation
Reviewing literature
How
do I get a rough overview?
After you have narrowed down your topic (see the unit "Finding topics and formulating questions"), you can start with the targeted literature research. At this point, you don't have to write excerpts yet, but it is first about creating a rough roadmap or work outline. Before we get into the detailed research, we would like to give you an overview of the different forms of literature:
To get a first overview, you can first enter keywords in the ThULB search, or for very extensive results use the catalog of the German National Library. When searching, the following sources are recommended to get started:
Write down your reading results in a mind map in which you record only the most important information of the publications. . You can also add them to your reference management program. In a later step you will have a closer look at some of these publications. But first of all, it is important to get an overview.