Main categories of Literature Review
- What is a review of literature?
- Why are literature reviews necessary?
- How can you create a literature review chapter?
- Searching for sources
- Reading papers
- When should you stop reading
- Organize the information
- Writing your literature review
- Time needed for the literature review
- How to read and select important journals
- Note taking process
- A literature review is a description of the literature relevant to a particular field or topic.
- It can be a critic analysis of published research papers or books along with a comparison to new research contributions.
This is often written as part of:
- A postgraduate thesis proposal
- A commencement of a thesis
- A separate assignment
Literature Review main aspects
- Define the general topic, issue or area of concern.
- Explain to the reader the scope of the literature review chapter and how it is relevant to your research.
- Provide some key points of the contents which will be analyzed in the chapter
Body:
- The most relevant papers to your topic must be included analytically .
- In the main body you will convince the reader for your research background. Based on previous research you will provide justifications for whatyou are doing, whyyou are doing it, and howyou are going to do it.