ALT Thesis examiners have two main questions about your literature review: How does your literature review relate to your contributions? Why haven't you included paper X as related work? To ensure you will have these answers, here are the 5 steps you need to take to plan a literature review. Define your scope. Identify what you want to learn from the literature. Is it the latest research on your topic? The best established methods? Perhaps all use cases for an intervention or artifact? What is it you are looking for? Define your search strategy. Define in which databases you will look for literature and how you will do the search. Will you just use search queries? Or perhaps depart from a group of seed papers and explore the citations network? When do you stop searching? Will you also search white papers or grey literature? Choose how to evaluate your sources. Define your inclusion and exclusion criteria. For each result of your search, should that result be included or excluded fro