Assignment:

Based on what you have learned about research, list various tactics one can employ to find work that might be related to or identical to what you propose to do$.$ This is a case where statements, such as $"$My work is so new that there is nothing in the literature," is a red warming flag to the members of your committee. If no one has done any work in the area, why should anyone believe it is important or feasible?

Once potentially useful work has been found, what tactics can one employ to survey the work for the purposes of a literature review without spending far too much time mastering the work as if it were the sole textbook of a graduate course.

Leveraging these tactics, what works of others have you found, both historically as well as current, that might be related and relevant?

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