200 papers scattered across your desk.
50 PDF tabs open.
Notes everywhere.
And still no idea how to weave them into a coherent literature review...
You're stuck in literature review hell.
And I get it...
Because every PhD student faces these same demons:
• Worry about sounding "academic enough"
• Anxiety about synthesizing properly
• Terror of the supervisor's feedback
• Fear of missing crucial papers
• Stress over organizing it all
But here's what nobody tells you:
ALT An annotated example of how to write a literature review or related works section in a paper. From: How To Do Science, Revised Edition by Louise Lexis and Brianna Julien. The University of Southern Queensland. CC BY-NC-SA