Hi

I've been offered an opportunity to work as an RA on a journal article (8-10 pages total length). I have to conduct the literature review and understand the parameters (I've been given old articles by the researcher and told to update her references and write a new review).

Problem is the researcher is away for 6 weeks and I want to check that I am doing the right thing.

Basically I am finding papers, writing summaries for each paper I find, then writing the lit review with the papers I found relevant.

This is all expected to be within 20 hours work. Which doesn't sound like enough hours to me (just like tutoring or marking!).

Am I approaching this right? This is what I did with my PhD and it worked for me, but am unsure if it is what is expected of an RA.

thanks
Io

sounds very much like what I did when I was an RA, although it does sound like more than 20 hours work.