A big part of my advice to students on #scientificwriting is that less is more.
Don’t open unnecessary cans of worms! Better to leave it out entirely than to gesture at it vaguely but not take the time to cover it thoroughly. And you simply can’t include EVERYTHING.
It shouldn’t be a log of everything you have read or, worse!, a flex to prove how widely read you are. It’s great to think broadly about connections to your research, but focused writing will be more clear and compelling.

@girls_can
Really sad about the situation at my university where all students in bachelors degree have projects each year for which they have to compulsorily publish a research paper. This whole mess results in students writing a paper just for the sake of not failing and white papers of very very poor quality getting out

@mur2501 I’ve never heard of any program or even a research grant with a requirement to actually publish. Not even a PhD student must have published to graduate! Because science can be high risk and not all research works out or ends up publishable, not to mention the role of chance in the pace and ultimate fate of peer review. That seems a really unrealistic bar for undergrads to me! My grants require some # of manuscripts for submission to a peer reviewed journal, but not full publication