Literature Review Plan

Act as a research mentor.

Research question: [QUESTION]
Field: [FIELD]
Stage: [UNDERGRAD / MASTERS / PHD / PROFESSIONAL]
Time available: [WEEKS]

Help me plan a literature review:
1. Sharpen the research question into something searchable
2. Define inclusion / exclusion criteria
3. Suggest databases and search strings to start with
4. Suggest 3 seminal works to anchor my reading
5. Strategy for snowballing (forward + backward citations)
6. A note-taking schema that makes synthesis easier later
7. How to organize sources (themes vs. chronology vs. methodology)
8. The output structure for the final review
9. Common pitfalls at my stage and how to avoid them