I think that I am getting the point.

Till now I have done the literature review part. That's ok.

Please be patient with me since I want to understand if I have a good understanding of what we are talking about.

First of all, the distinction between Theoretical Background and Conceptual framework helped me a lot in understanding.

In my case. As I said I am doing my research on housing prices and demographic variables.

So probably the conceptual framework would be a theory (supply and demand in my case) and how mathematically a relationship between housing prices and the other variables are connected. Of course based on one theory or another. Since I have already chosen my model based on a specific work then it should be easy to choose these theories right?

Thanks again and thanks for being patient

Hi there!!

In my case MS Powerpoint is quite sufficient. Does the jom plain and simple.

3-4 times I experienced some difficulties and for that reason I used Smartdraw. There is a new version for 2010. Is also quite simple.
It is not freeware, but probably you can find somewhere (not including how or where, of course I know but I am now sure if we allowed to share links of that kind)

However, you should try MS Powerpoint, is my advice.

All the best

Hi to you all!!!
I just found the place and really loved the discussions which I have followed till now.
I have a question, quite basic one, but although to some of you might seem easy I can't get throught to it.
First of all, I am a PhD student in Germany. I have already started writting and recently completed all the theoretical part meaning (Introduction,Key concepts analysis, data, methodology, geographic region of the analysis etc etc). I asked from my Prof. to read it and submit comments on it. What I faced was a complete disaster. Her comments were really insulting only to one part of my thesis.

She asks: Where is your Theoretical Background?

So my question is What is theoretical background?

When I was in London, doing my Master Thesis, I had a Prof saying that, don't write theories I know that you will probably copy-paste them from somewhere. What I am interesting in is Literature review. So during my PhD I have focus on Literature review. But now I have a theoretical background problem.

Can somebody help me? Isnt' the same when you say that e.g. this guy in his study did that (literature review) and found that - with- this has an effect on that (XXXX, 1989)

A friend suggested that the first is literature review while the second is theoretical background.

What I am analysis in housing prices and demographic variables.
So any help on what is the theoretical background to that?

Any help will be much appreciated.

George