Can anyone give me some tips on finding the "gap in the market". I have read lots of the literature on my subject and have produced a short literature review that has been handed in to my supervisor. The comments I got back were favourable on the review itself but my conclusion and suggested work was deemed top be a bit vague. When I spoke to my supervisor about it he said I needed to give more reasons for pursuing the avenue I was suggesting, and said "trying something to see what the results were" wasn't a good starting point. I am finding it difficult at this point in my study to be critical enough of what others (experts) have written on the subject to be able to define to complete area I want to look at. I am not sure if others have faced this problem but any advice/ tips on how to make the next step would be gratefully received
Thanks
Max

my sup always says I should draw a model out of what relationships have been looked at. You can then work out who has done what, more than likely there will be two areas that are similar but use different methods and no one has tried to combine the areas/use the opposing method etc etc.