Thank you sneaks, that really helps. For some reason I remember someone saying that Lit review should be about 20,000 words? I suppose if minimum is 80,000 then maybe that makes sense?

How do you differentiate between introduction and literature review? Surely there must be some overlap?

Thanks Bil and Sneaks. That's good to know.

I'm looking at a problem specific to the sample I use (for example - people who own pet ducks) and so my intro is stuff from national statistics about e.g. how many ducks people tend to own and about how much it costs to feed ducks - leading into why I'm looking at that sample and the specific problem to do with that sample (e.g. duck food has gone up in price). My lit review is then about the academic research been done on e.g. duck keeping. My method is then looking at how people have approached researching duck-owning.

(its not on ducks btw :p )

Lovely anology, that explained it very well. Many thanks!

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I thought your PhD was a comparative analysis of dog barking and artic penguins ;-)

and ducks - its comparing the amount of food ducks eat vs the amount of penguins polar bears eat and how many dogs bark about it all :p

One thing about sneaks, she never 'ducks' the questions! :p