First year in phd journey. I learn to read the literature. I collected many journal and articles related to my study. I collected anything about Islamic finance.
I read and read but still I cannot comprehend to it. I really do not understand it. What do I really want to find in this all written articles? It takes me one year to realise that I need to summarise all those finding and conclusion made by previous author.
Second year in my study, I already know what are the literature gaps. I re-read the whole article again and find out what are the variables involved in their writing. Still there is a huge amount of reading to do.
Now in the third year of study, I finalised my variables. I know what variables I needed. Then only I go to youtube to learn how people do literature review. I did that after my proposal defense. (Can you imagine how chaotic my proposal defense).
I choose and select related article. The one that within my scope only. I compress it from 800 journal to become 90 only. I know that I need to compress it again to become only less than 50. You see the process that we all have to go through if we do not have a close mentor in our study, All in all, nobody can teach you how to do it. Your supervisor will let you drown. You got to swim through it.
Now that I know what to do. I still learn how to make it perfect according to academic standard. I learn from reading "how to" instruction manual. The material come from you tube, internet search and books. Once you reach your third year, This is necessary to fine tune your attitude. You need to adhere to industry practise, to become one of them. In this case I mean "academic researcher"
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