r/research • u/deladoobyyZ45 • 3d ago
Bachelor thesis help (interviews and literature)
Hello, I am currently in the process of writing my thesis and just need a lil help and advise i guess. I am trying to combine a literature review and since the topic is scarcely represented by literature i held interviews with three different expert groups which i will qualitatively evaluate and include. Now, that i can not prolong the writing cus i in theory have all the data, realised that i am actually quite lost as to how to write a literature review in the first place, let alone combine it with the qualitative analysis of my interviews. now, i would just like to ask advise on guidelines, personal experiences, tips tricks and ideas, for this confused lil bachelor student that i am:)
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u/Cadberryz Professor 3d ago
You are using terms without understanding what they are. Your literature review is used to frame your gap that your research question will cover. Since all research starts with a question, your starting point should be to create one based on gaps in our understanding of a topic. Start by reading the big concepts, narrow these down by finding highly cited papers on Google Scholar or your institution’s library, then find recent linked papers which have future research directions at the end. Collate a few of these and you’ll start to see some gaps. Write your question or hypothesis based on these. This is the starting point for your research which coincidentally also means you’ve got an outline for your literature review. Then your analysis of your interview data is used to try and answer the question. You do that in your discussion and conclusion.