It is Saturday and I am NOT at the library! Instead, I am taking a break from research and am currently awaiting my breakfast at a restaurant. I worked hard all week on my literature review and have a very solid spreadsheet that summarizes about 275 papers. The spreadsheet captures the title, author, journal name, ranking, abstract, topic, and relevance for my paper. I have also created a frame for the writing of the literature review so next week the writing will commence.
I completely underestimated the effort involved with this undertaking, essentially about 10 days. One key learning here is that I should have been more diligent and approached this task incrementally! It is not that I did not do it at all, but my previous spreadsheets had about 60 papers entered, a far cry from what is needed.
My breakfast is here. Yum!