As part of the future learning course, I've started this blog to track the process of doing a literature review. We strongly recommend that you record your learning throughout the four weeks in some form of journal or blog . You will see this practice demonstrated through the course on the Teacher’s blog . On a blog, we can see the development of a new text as it unfolds, step by step as we go through the course. Seeing the development process will help you know what to do with your own literature review, and guide you to record and share your own experience in the same way. What is a literature review and why do it? This course focuses on principles and practices that are common to any kind of literature reviewing task, large or small, so you can take from it what applies to your own situation. You may have started writing a literature review, or just thinking about it, you may need to write a short and simple one, or develop a mini proposal into a thesis chapter. You migh