1
00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,430
The first step to constructing your introduction is to search the literature. And to search the literature

2
00:00:05,430 --> 00:00:10,240
you need to do three things: you to first locate relevant papers,

3
00:00:10,470 --> 00:00:13,910
then you need to get them and ideally for free,

4
00:00:14,070 --> 00:00:18,960
and then finally you need to scan them and decide which papers you want to use in your own paper and

5
00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,900
which ones you don't want to use.

6
00:00:20,910 --> 00:00:23,490
So let's go through these three steps.

7
00:00:23,490 --> 00:00:26,100
So first of all we want to locate relevant papers.

8
00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:27,470
How do we do that?

9
00:00:27,540 --> 00:00:33,030
And this is one of the most tedious parts because in most cases the literature is pretty big.

10
00:00:33,030 --> 00:00:38,970
And so the first recommendation I would give to you is to start by asking experts. And if you have supervisors

11
00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,550
then I would start by asking my supervisors.

12
00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:45,120
You can ask them what papers they recommend to start with.

13
00:00:45,150 --> 00:00:48,270
You can also ask them what authors you should look for.

14
00:00:48,270 --> 00:00:52,980
They can also help you with finding relevant keywords to search for papers yourself.

15
00:00:52,980 --> 00:00:58,560
So start by asking them for whatever advice they can give you because they can make your life a lot

16
00:00:58,590 --> 00:00:59,010
easier.

17
00:00:59,990 --> 00:01:05,660
Another thing you can do is to use Google Scholar which is my preferred search engine to find research

18
00:01:05,660 --> 00:01:09,200
papers and I'm going to show you later how Google Scholar works.

19
00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:14,210
And when you use Google Scholar or just search the literature in general, don't just look for individual

20
00:01:14,210 --> 00:01:21,770
papers but also try to identify who are the experts in the field which names tend to pop up very very

21
00:01:21,770 --> 00:01:22,430
often.

22
00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:27,440
And once you find these experts you can have a look how they write their introduction and what papers

23
00:01:27,470 --> 00:01:32,180
they cite because they probably already know the literature pretty well and then via their reference

24
00:01:32,180 --> 00:01:35,190
list you can find other papers to read.

25
00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:40,120
It's also very often a good idea to go to their Web site because very often they have resources there,

26
00:01:40,550 --> 00:01:45,770
very likely they will have an overview of their publications and that can already be helpful. But sometimes

27
00:01:45,770 --> 00:01:50,380
they also like to blog or just generally help people, give an overview of the literature.

28
00:01:50,390 --> 00:01:53,580
And that's something that can be very very useful.

29
00:01:53,810 --> 00:01:59,180
Also aside from just focusing on experts whenever you find a paper that is very very relevant to your

30
00:01:59,180 --> 00:02:05,110
research then you can use their references to find more papers that could be relevant to your research.

31
00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:11,690
And then finally one advice I want to give you is that in whatever you do, try to locate review papers.

32
00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:17,690
So review papers are papers that do exactly what you want, which is an overview of the literature. And

33
00:02:17,690 --> 00:02:23,270
if you find a review paper that gets very close to your research topic then it can suddenly get very

34
00:02:23,270 --> 00:02:25,470
easy to get an overview of the literature.

35
00:02:25,580 --> 00:02:30,690
So whatever you use to find research papers look for the review papers first.

36
00:02:30,780 --> 00:02:32,750
Okay so that's how you locate research papers.

37
00:02:32,750 --> 00:02:34,490
Now let's talk about how you get them.