Continuing the Process

• This process is an ongoing one.
• You need to continue to build up your references.
• I use bibtex (for latex) and a big filing cabinet full of documents.
• A lot of people use EndNote (which seems to work with Word documents).
• Those things are about keeping track of your references.
• You can build cognitive maps to help you organise your references.
• A particularly critical thing to do is to find parts of the field that don't refer to each other.
• The Russians are quite fond of saying we discovered X 20 years ago, it's just not been published in English.
• Similar things often happen with older research that has been rediscovered.
• There are also different ways of looking at problems, and different communities may come to solutions independently of each other.
• Keep reading.
• Our PhD students write a literature review in their second year; they should rewrite it before they finish their thesis.