ResearchUnboxed / Original worksheet
Literature matrix
Keep sources comparable while distinguishing findings from your interpretation. Includes a worked guidance row.
Working title: __________________________________ Date: ______________
01 / Citation
Record author, year, title, publisher and DOI or URL; include page numbers where useful.
02 / Question
What was the source trying to establish?
03 / Method
How was evidence selected, collected or interpreted?
04 / Sample/context
Who or what was studied, where and when?
05 / Findings
Summarise the central result in your own words.
06 / Limitations
Record uncertainty, bias and limits to generalisation.
07 / Relevance
Explain how the source supports, complicates or challenges your question.
Use locally; this worksheet does not submit or store your answers. Seek faculty guidance before sensitive, human-participant or laboratory work.