Literature Review

I find reading academic literature really boring. I was wondering if anyone else feels the same?

Thanks! I totally understand. I guess the question is more so about reading academic material, not necessarily the process of a literature review. How do you find reading academic material?

Oh, I see. I don't really mind reading research papers most of the time (depends on what I'm researching though). Most of the time reading the abstract tells me all I need to know about whether this study is relevant to what I'm doing or not in which case I'll either close it or read the entire thing or excerpts that are relevant.

I really struggled with it at college because I didn't understand a lot of the terminology and structure related to academic writing, but I'm in the second year of my degree now so it's no longer a problem.

On the other hand, I absolutely hate quoting books as research because I feel like the research is not condensed at all and the author is getting paid by the word rather than for relaying information. It means sometimes I have to read half the book just to find out I can't actually use it. If I tried to use fragments of the book, often times I worry I may be misinterpreting or misrepresenting the research.

Of course, some research papers are more difficult to read than others but it all depends on the subject and the authors.