The presentation starts with the actual literature review topic at 16:49.

The most valuable part of this video was definitely @36:23 (how to gather sources) , 39:01 (creating a literature matrix) and 41:08 (organising your sources) ! Thanks!

Man!.. I have enrolled in a Doctoral program at NCU and failed to complete my dissertation. I wish my chair would provided me with the mentor and guide as you have stated in your video here that I needed to be successful in my dissertation. I have come all the way by passing every single class, completed my comprehensive exam to my dissertation, spent a lot of money for the I call "my life journey" and failed my Doctoral dissertation and not completed my program. If she would just gave me a phone call, or personal email and direct me in the right direction or to your video, I'll successfully completed my dissertation and completed my doctoral program. Thank you Dr. Guy for your explanation. My next journey I will not be the same and I will be more ready and be successful. Boun Xiong.

Your video not only clarifies much of what was troubling me in moving forward, but also helped relieve some of the stress I was feeling about difficulties I was having. Hearing that feeling lost, confused, ill prepared, and overburdened are typical in this kind of endeavor really let me know that I'm not as lost, confused, ill prepared, and overburdened as I actually feel. Thank you for taking your time to help people like us to complete this daunting task.

1.Five sources a week x 5 quotes from each source which can produce 400 quotes in 16 weeks!!! 2.Build an environment to write your dissertation. 3.6-8 hours 3 days in a week that’s golden!!! 4.Give your first energy to your first priority when you start a day, and your first priority of the day is DISSERTATION!!! Golden Rules Dr. Thank you so much.

Thank you Dr Guy! I am in my final year of my PHD, but this has really given me clear pointers. Wish I had found this video 2 years ago!

Thank you so much for the encouragement. My eyes are actually teary. You're a great teacher and most definitely a most awesome father!

I made some timestamps for my personal use but I know others will find it helpful as well. 0:00 Welcome and Learning Objectives 4:01 Motivation and About me from the speaker 12:04 Video Roadmap 14:10 What needs to go into a literature review 15:47 Common mistakes in writing a literature review 19:20 Initial steps before the writing phase of a literature review 26:16 Gathering and organizing materials 38:58 Literature matrix example 41:23 Organizing Step example 42:26 Communicating with your dissertation chair, Minimizing revisions 47:25 Example of an ideal email 51:07 Personal story from the speaker about finishing and graduating

Thank you for affirming some of the things I have already been doing (instinctively) and for adding a few more tips that I can use like doing the matrix. I've struggled with how to organize all the materials I have gathered in the last few months. Most of all I appreciate your acknowledging the feelings that I've gone through in this journey--isolation, confusion and self-doubt. It is good to know that I am not the only one who felt that way. Thank you so much! Am ready to move forward again.

Dr.Guy is the best tutor I have ever met. He is intelligent, smart and full of charisma.I will recommend him to any one who really have problems dealing with his desertification to contact him. I play his lectures every morning for 30 minutes before I shower to go to work He has a huge experience in research work and he is not greedy.He is sharing the knowledge.He is very good.

I loved this video!! I loved the literature matrix, the cutting and taping the quotes together, and the post it notes. My goal is to get my dissertation finished by February 2022, my doctoral program got derailed by a cancer diagnosis, but the cancer gave me my dissertation topic and a reason to get back to life. You have inspired me to get my dissertation completed in 8 months! You're right, dissertations should not be this thing that keeps you from life! I'm excited! Thank you.

Bro your passion for everything you do is just amazing. You're not ashamed to express the love for your family and the Dissertation mentorship.

Thank you for the very practical tips and inspiring stories about your career and your family. I appreciate how you emphasize your first priority.

Thanks Dr. G! Your video was encouraging and refreshing. I have been stuck on my Lit review because my approach was the-writing-aspect instead of the-gathering-aspect. Nice! Thanks again.

Just about to start my Literature Review and watching this has helped me so much, it has inspired me so much too! Thanks a ton, God bless you and your beautiful family.

I'm a Msc student. I'm really lost at the stating point and fed up of my theses and search every where in the internet accidentally, i watched your video. it is encourage me lot and 100% useful. Thank you very much.

I loved this video. It is an eye opener for me. I should have known it before. I am rewriting the literature review and struggling for time. I did all that negative stuff. I lost all my time. Now I have to pick up pieces and move forward.

I sincerely appreciate the training video. I needed to hear a voice. I am an online student and unfortunate for me, I may need the brick and mortar. Thank you Dr. Guy!

I am the happiest person probably today on my journey for a strong and scientific research as a Ph.D. Candidate. I am so inspired by the lecture, particularly the idea of developing a matrix for the literature review, reading 5 books per week and recording 5 quotes are the key messages for me now. Thank you very much. I have just been reading throughout without getting anything done. I am also happy to know that I should read old books as well, a lot of people said to me that I should concentrate on the new articles and books in my field. I am a student of Economics with a concentration on firms level analysis on International trade and its implications for developing economies. I am signing up for your class now...

I am really lost right now in working with my Phd proposal writing. Listening to your lecture on this area that I need to improve gives me a motivation to try how to collect and organize information and materials into my literature review. Gratitude and thanks to you Dr. Guy for making this lecture available on social media for me to be able to access it. I will write you again how successful I am after applying whatever I have learned from this lecture into practice in my Phd dissertation writing.

I found the collecting and organising part most useful. Specific advice at the end about sources and quotes was also useful.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am in my second year. It is a hybrid program and there is not a lot of "face time" with professors. And I don't always get answers to my emailed questions. Last week, I could not wrap my head around "Theoretical Framework." I found your awesome video on the topic. It cleared up the confusion. Your channel has become an important resource. Well organized and well taught. I just "shared" several links with my cohort members. They are singing your praises too!

I'm so thankful that you cover topics that aren't covered as much with nuance and without judgment! It's nice to know that I'm not the only student who had to take extra time to finish a thesis, but it's even better to have solutions for how to get out of that gracefully!

Thank you so much! This is EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED, you are amazing, and love that you took the time to make this!

Thanks Dr. Guy! I found your video very informative with a nice touch on addressing the personal frustrations regarding this process. I am really having a difficult time organizing my Lit review and your video pointed me in the right direction. I've watched this video in whole or parts about 3-4 times. Thanks again for the information.

Dr. Guy, thank you for the tips and lecture on dissertation writing. It is very informative and to the point. I will re-use it and recommend it to my peers. Blessing Wiwuga Orage

Dear Dr. Guy - Thank you, good sir! I am just starting my doctoral journey and you are providing great comfort during some very uncertain days!

I have watched many videos and read many articles on how to write a literature review and this by far is the most practical and honest i have come across.

Love the beginning part about 'your no. 1' and the kids in the backgroundd...made me realise I wanna finish my Lit Review in few weeks and go enjoy my life !!! :D

Dr. Guy, This video was great! I was lost before looking at this video. Everything you said about not feeling adequate, this is more than me was correct. I was like I feel "dumb" and I am stuck. Now I have a better understanding. Thanks for the video. I do have a question for you.

Omg - Everything you shared in the first 3 1/4 minutes is everything that I have felt and have said to myself on this Master's journey

Ooh five sources with five quotes from each. I am glad I watched this presentation again. Thank you.

Wonderful outline. After struggling for the past year on the Lit Review, I managed to formulate something similar to what you outline here. I gathered the literature, I had it all tabbed, highlighted, and inked up but could not figure out how to best compile these pieces to form the Lit Review. The part I really could have used was how to cut and paste the components into similar topics to form the outline of the Lit Review. I would love to see a more detailed outline of this. I believe I have a good foundation on the Lit Review and I know it will need a bit more work. I will grab my binders and get the five quotes per piece of literature, so if you have any pointers on how to then cut and group these pieces I would find it extremely helpful. This is a wonderful video.

Hi all, I am hear to say that it CAN BE DONE. I did use Dr. Guy's advice in several areas. I finished the dissertation and successfully defended the research on June 21, 18. Call me Dr. J.B. Remember everyone, you can keep dwinking with the work until the cows come home. FINISHED is BETTER THAN 'Perfect.'

Thank you soo much for taking the time to develop this platform. I am only 6 classes into my coursework, but this helped me move from a stuck place from writing a literature review in my courses, so it will definitely be useful in writing one for my dissertation. I took notes throughout the video and will be using all of the pointers that you offered. Thanks again for your time and expertise, definitely a life changer!!

I am 58 years old man, English as a second language. Now decided to carry my lifelong dream of possessing a doctoral degree. I was hoping one of my two children could go forward to earn an advanced level, to meet my wish, but both, for now, are not concerned. And that prompts me to go on at this age. God willing, I am embarking on my first class June 21 at University of Phoenix online for “Business Management and Organizational Leadership”. Listening to your free advice “how to write a literature” really helpful. As I stated I did not see the first class, but when I’m expecting anything that could hold valuable information, here I found yours, and I am grateful having it. Thank you so much.

Dr Guy, I broke out in laughter in the first 5 minutes: You can read minds.....

Can you please make a video on methodology? Especially for Social Sciences - Survey and Interviews as methods

I have learned so much in this video, it covers everything you need to know with writing a thorough literature review. Thank you.

Dr. Guy, This is SO much more than "just" a literature review video! It reminds us of the value of life, time, people...family and helps us to sort through those who may derail our thoughts. This presentation is well worth it's time in gold. THANK YOU!

If you don't mind.... May I ask for a favor? Rather than longer talks, how about sample works with examples? I mean show an example of a dissertation and explain step by step how it had been prepared............ I think that also can be far helpful for young learners like me................ :)

So, do you have a shorter video that touches on what needs to be done like a, b, c, 1, 2, 3.

I've watched this video no less than two time making notes as I go along and pulling new nuggets everytime .... this has helped me tremendously.

Great guide. This video definitively is a huge help in completing my dissertation. The collection of the sources and organization that you mention is so significant. I feel so pumped up now, I've been feeling a little down lately, thinking that I've reached rock bottom, my literature review was not clicking and I was going back and forth between sources and my writing. I have a significant number of sources; my organization is not the best though, but I can see how to do it now. That motivational intro really got me going..! My committee also told me that I can do it in 9 months if I really concentrate on my work, which I can see that happening now. Thank you Dr. Guy!

this was great!!! but we are told the 5 years previous to graduation.

12:16 where everything begun ^^

i can't tell you what a life saver this video has been!! the bit about making a table and then cutting the information out and organizing it all is like a visual learner's (such as myself)dream!!! awesome work! Thank YOU!

Dr. Guy I appreciate your video. As a late bloomer in college, 50+ years young and in my Master's program without any face time sharing with my Professors online I truly needed this. Seeing things from so many places and not much of it on the same page makes things so confusing. This has laid so much out for me with great relevance for future writings. You have a beautiful family. ( ; Thank You for sharing your valuable time and I look forward to more of your works here.

This is very true. I've just started writing Literature review for my Masters degree project and it is really difficult. It does feel insurmountable even though I've written heaps of essays over the years. You are very spot on so thank you..

Thank you soooo much!! Extremely helpful! I didn't even know!!!

I am currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I am in a desperate time already and watching your videos really helped me clarify things and move forward. Thank you so much Dr. Guy :D

This video is still changing lives in 2019!

Dear Dr. Guy, Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I have found your tips extremely useful and while I have already implemented some of the tips before watching this video, I will be making use of your advice, especially with regards to the organisation aspect of the research that I have collected in my searches. Your video has helped me re-focus my direction and I am thankful that I came across it!

Thank you so much for demystifying the dissertation journey! The engaging manner in which you have done this has really motivated me to take action in an efficient manner towards completion! What a gift!

Dr. Guy... thank you. I love your videos. I always get teary-eyed when you talk about your kids because I feel similarly about mine. I am using your videos to help me write my research project for an undergraduate Psychology degree. I will definitely be searching out your other videos.

Thanks Dr. Guy. I am currently working on my literature review and this helped me gain valuable insight into a more effective way to organize, research, and put together my literature review.

Thank you! I am in week 2 of my PhD and feeling a little overwhelmed. This video REALLY helped to make my first task (reviewing the literature) a much more focussed and achievable goal. I am now armed with ideas of how to move forward. Thanks again.

You're amazing! Thanks! You gave me hope to start my Literature Review for an Honours research, which is simpler than a Literature Review for a doctoral dissertation.

Hi, I am a Masters Student in English Studies. After watching your video, I am inspired like never been before. Thank you for taking time to clarify every nook and corner of the project.

I was stucked in theLiterature Review portion of my assignment. Your video has helped me complete my assignment! Thank you, you're awesome!

thank you! I was feeling lost and in doubt of what I was doing then you came up and validated my process!

Gave me a renewed focus for my MA Dissertation - Thank you,

I am in 5 week of my first semester of my doctoral program and I will follow all the advice you have given, I am so excited to get started. I have my literature paper due in 2 weeks and now I have a much better understanding of how to begin. Thank you!

Thank you Dr. Guy for putting back in me somehow the energy I need to work on my dissertation....

Dr Guy, this is wonderful. I am not even doing a dissertation yet but I am looking forward to it now . Thank you

You're the best Dr. Guy. This helps me a lot, I was confused to what step to make, and you make it simpler. Thanks

Thank you very much, Dr. Guy E. White. I am at very beginning of my PhD dissertation about Leadership in Higher Education especially about academic staff commitment in relation with Transformational leadership style. I really appreciated the video and even watched the full one on your website. Thanks again and hope a happy life for you and all the members of your family.

Dear Dr. Guy, I wish I watched your advice 6 months ago. I highly appreciate your extremely amazing job. I wish you all successes and happiness in your life. I'll restart my literature review because my last work as someone who spins in a circle.

Really,I'll be using every point that you made as I go forward. The in and out box resonates with me. I've been using large grocery carry all bags as I bring in books from our library inter-loan system and another for the books I'm using for courses. Marking sections of interest and relevance with post-its, reading those sections and gathering quotes, entering the info on a spread sheet and then cutting the sheets into individual strips for organization, finally pasting them into a coherent and relevant organization is all very fantastic. The struggle I've had with papers all these years could have been greatly lessened and my time used much more effectively and meaningfully if these kind of guideline to writing papers was taught in high school. I'm WAY past high school but I find this information a pleasurable relief as I continue my academic journey. You've done many a great service. I'm passing the links to your videos on to my older sister who's in the process of preparing her proposal for her Ed.D, as well as to my own (grown children) as they contemplate continuing their education. Blessings to you and your family.

Great talk. I have been searching various sites for guidance and Dr. Guy , you just made is so simple. Your description of sitting there boxing books, typing in Microsoft etc. that me . THANK YOU for a new direction in writing

Dr. Guy, I have a renewed sense of energy since watching this video. You have given me more direction than my current online popular school in which I attend. I wanted to give up today, yes today! I stumbled across your video and feel as though I can finish. Thank you.

You are so true about the road mapping. I wrote my introduction/problem statement first and then I was reading for my literature review. It really influences my initial thoughts about my paper. After having this video, things are even more clear. Thank you DR. Guy! God bless.

Dr Guy, this is my Thanksgiving gift. My Chair directed me to video on "How to write a Problem Statement." I'm watch all of them!! I wish this info was given prior to the commencement of the dissertation. It is well needed. Thanks again. I will be visiting your website.

Dr. White, you are God sent!! I have been trying to work on my literature review and I did not have enough confidence about what I was doing. Fortunately, I found your video before I wasted a lot of valuable time getting "lost". Your video has provided me with a clear road map on how to continue. I definitely would like to be mentored by you! Thank you once again!!

Dr Guy....this piece of work is truly amazing. I am sooooo glad I found your video (and straight away register myself in your website). You explained the topic so well, crystal clear word for word, and with great intonation. I played the video twice so that I don't missed anything. I have been groping in the dark for the past few months not knowing clearly my roadmap and what I need to do step-by-step. Your building of a house metaphor was very good...and the big items I have learned from this are the steps in lit review and building the matrix. Thank you Dr for taking your time to build such a beautiful piece of work. God bless you.

Dr. White Thank you so much for the information! I feel a weight lifting off of my neck. I have written and applied myself in so many areas, yet with this task I have felt paralyzed and lost. I cannot thank you enough for your valuable explanation! Respectfully, Misty

I am about to apply for my MPhil program, and as part of my preparation to face the challenge of writing dissertation, I sort to research about ways to write a good dissertation. And I am glade I found your lecture on youtub to guide me. Just to say am grateful for that piece of lecture. Thank you Dr. E. Guy

thank you so much dr.You have covered almost everything about literature review and your advices are really precious

Dear Dr. Guy, I can't begin to share with you the relief I feel after watching your video. I have a lot of your ideas already in place and now have a great plan moving forward. I love the idea of the Literature Matrix and am creating it now! I am just about to start my literature review and now have a clear roadmap. Thank you for sharing your expertise and motivating me to move past my hesitation of not knowing how to take this next step...Literature Review, here I come!!! I'm so thankful I found your videos early in my proposal writing process. God Bless you and your growing family.

Great video. I have learned in this video more than I learned in the last 20 videos I watched before Dr. Guy. You are fantastic.

Thank you, Dr Guy! I can be hopeless sometimes, but you sparked that motivation in me. I wish our research professors would have at least shown one video from you, it would have saved a lot of students' time and energy.

Amazing. Thank you for creating these videos. I am working on my master's thesis that is focused on a Canadian case study of Big Picture Learning and the continued expansion of this model of education across the country at the high school level. I was stuck on my literature review and your videos have significantly helped me move forward. The spreadsheet idea for collecting sources and quotes was a great idea for keeping everything organised and the organised structure of the literature review will be useful when I start "building my house".

Your presentations are helping me figure out my life, LOL. My situation is unique. However, I do not want to neglect everyone in my life because of my dissertation. Thus, it is helpful and insightful when you discuss your family at the beginning of the videos. I've watched a number of your videos and the language is easily understood. Your grounded and focused on the subject matter, which provides great instruction. I understand the process better as well as knowing what will be required of me. I appreciate your approach and honesty. Thanks, John

I have to say thank you Dr Guy, I found your video very useful and now I know how to start writing my own literature review. Thank you again

Hi Dr Guy, I love the process but mostly appreciate the guidelines and targets ie. Five sources a week x 5 quotes from each source which can produce 400 quotes in 16 weeks. You have no idea how much of a difference your video's are making to give me a conceptual picture on how to proceed. I am more confident. Once again. Great work. Keep it coming, and appreciate the fact that you care about me even though you have not met me. Blessings to you and your family :)

I am starting the doctoral program and the Literature Review seems to be overwhelming. However, Dr. Guy's explanation of the dissertation process makes it more simplistic. In particular, reading five articles, writing five quotes per week from the article, and creating a word document.

Hi Dr. Guy! I am in the beginning of my dissertation process. Your video gave me a clear and realistic view of how I am going to go about completing my dissertation and earn my doctoral degree. Thank you!

Dr John, thank you so much for your sharing! So honest and inspiring! Really appreciate it!

What an amazing way of simplifying this Doctoral journey ..Thanks Dr Guy .. your videos give me hope ...

I like the fact that you are so real, thanks, very educative.

Hi Dr. I've just 'discovered' you on KZfaq and I am super excited. Your teachings are easy to understand with helpful guidelines. I am struggling to fully comprehend the conversion from the guidelines given to actually start with my research. Some of the points you highlighted already gave me more insight. Thank you so much for making this available.

Wow Dr. Guy..I am impressed ..& glad that I've come across this video. I've been searching for know-how on how to approach for a systematic literature review and your tutorial had offered me an insight on how to move forward.Thank you so much

Dear Dr Guy. Thank you for this video. I have been groping in the dark trying to work on my literature review. Now I can see clearly what I need to do. You have motivated me as well to finish my thesis fast and well. I need to do this since I have three sons and I don't want to neglect them and my husband for too long. Thank you very much.

Thank you Dr Guy. I love this video. I've made a lot of the mistakes around communication with Supervisor; and also skipping too far ahead and only to have to come back. Thank you for taking the time to create a road-map.

thank you so much for the video. I am in my fifth month of my literature review journey and I have been spending times in searching for the literature and am now in the process of churning what I have collected. What you have explained have given me some feeling of getting started. And I feel at least relieved now that I have such road maps to getting to writing that literature review which forms the first part of my proposal. Thanks for the a wonderful presentation

I just had to come back here and thank you. I mean really thank you. You have saved my research and just made the entire process do easy and desirable to complete. I needed everything in this video. Starting from the motivation to every single piece of advise you gave on how to start and go on. God abundantly bless you. thank you so so much!

Splendid presentation! Glad to have seen it at the beginning of my journey. Stress level reduced. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Dr. Guy, for this video and all the work you do to help doctoral students. I'm really not one to make public comments, but I have a much clearer mind and focus as a result of the information you shared. After thinking about what I will absolutely do as a result of this video, I've come up with a few goals. 1. Gather all of the literature for the Lit. Review first. 2. Start my day off with working on my dissertation. 3. Use a program to input my sources for easy reference later. Thanks again!

Hi, Dr. Guy. You made me feel so much better. The word insurmountable came to mind. A fellow student gave me the link to this video and I really appreciate you doing this for us.

Hi Dr. Guy! thank you so much for taking your time and make such a clear, informative and motivational video! I really appreciate it. I'm from Chile and I'm preparing my dissertation to graduate as an English teacher. This was of great help, thanks again!