ATC3702 Comparative Literature of the Ancient Near East

Reviews of previous literature in a thesis or research paper are not summaries of every article you have read, but rather an exposition of the existing knowledge and reasoning which led you to believe that what you did was worth doing in the way that you did it, written so as to convince the reader of these things. Writing about the literature is not just part of “what you have to do”, it is a valuable way to learn the literature, to get it “off the page and into your head”. And that...