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Writing [the literature review] well is a sign of professional maturity; it indicates one’s grasp of the field, one’s methodological sophistication in critiquing others’ research, and the breadth and depth of one’s reading.
Writing [the literature review] well is a sign of professional maturity; it indicates one’s grasp of the field, one’s methodological sophistication in critiquing others’ research, and the breadth and depth of one’s reading.
Krathwohl (1988, p. 4)
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The LPU is a somewhat controversial approach towards scholarly research (see Owen 2004). Our reference to the concept of the LPU is only to compare and contrast it to the other strategies of scholarly publication.
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Gatrell, J.D., Bierly, G.D., Jensen, R.R., Thakur, R.R. (2020). Literature Reviews. In: Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60019-8_2
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