Overview
Please read and follow instructions below carefully.
1. Read the following attachment containing what we have so far for my dissertation project. My tutor has given the following feedback for the presentation:
This is a solid presentation that does a good job of outlining much of your project so far. You are articulate and convey what you want to well. You make good use of visual aids (for the most part) and clearly outline your methodology and chapter structure. Importantly, you justify your case study choice and outline clearly how the chapters will be structured.
However, the presentation is let down by a lack of engagement with the literature. You don't mention a single author or reference a single text. At this stage of the project it is expected that you have made at the minimum a general survey of the literature on your topic and been able to indicate what the key arguments and camps are and who has made them. These are all absent. The literature review slide is confusing, with a disconnected set of boxes that seem to offer a mixture of what you will do and what other authors have said, but without giving any names or approaches beyond the generic idea of 'Neo-Ottomanism' - which is never explained or defined. You say later in the presentation that the literature review will be the 'map that guides your research,' but you show now evidence here that you have done the groundwork on this literature yet and, as such, your presentation and project have no 'map' to guide it. It is unclear what approaches you will be using, whether there will be a theoretical or analytical framework and what approaches you will be arguing in favour or against.
It is unclear whether this is because you haven't done the reading or because you have but opted not to put it into the presentation. Either way, please come to talk to me asap in the new term so we can make sure you're staying on the right track.
This was what had been said. Based on feedback I want you to do some research on the bits he has stated. Remember what we are arguing (While the Neo-Ottoman perspective is undeniably influential in the academic discussion, it is not embraced in its entirety. Recognizing the complexity of Turkey's interactions, the study project adopts a diverse approach to prevent oversimplification. ARGUING Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East under Recep Tayyip Erdogan ‘Neo-Ottoman’? But to a certain extent.) Make it clear what approaches you will be using.
2. After you have done research for the literature review and the dissertation, write up your Literature Review Draft [2000 words] It is the only complete chapter our supervisor is allowed to read so it is really important. So based on what you have planned already and the research you will be doing now we are writing up the literature review chapter.
The purpose the literature review is to: Situate your research in a field