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- 3. What is a Review? • A review is a type of secondary document that talks about previously published work • Review gives an overview of existing work done Re + view Again Look
- 4. Types of Review Literature Review Meta- Analysis Systematic Review Today, we’ll discuss how to write a Literature Review
- 5. Literature Review • Literature Review is the gradual process which the researcher uses to search out, read and critically evaluating previous works of scholars related to the problem under investigation • Summary and Analysis of previous researchers shows how they are linked to the present study
- 6. Literature Review • In order to Understand your study, you need to familiarize yourself with what other scholars have done in your proposed topic/project • In literature review, you are getting the full knowledge of the area of your interest • In research proposal, literature review is the second chapter
- 7. How to Conduct Literature Review
- 8. Identify the Topic Choose Area of Research 1 Select Field of Research 2 Select Topic of Research 3 Refine Topic of Research 4
- 9. Sources of Literature Review
- 12. Reading the Literature 1 • Read abstract of the article 2 • Skim through the article/book 3 • Survey the Main parts of the article/book 4 • Read in detail the selected important parts
- 13. Analyze the Literature • Analysis is the job of systematically breaking down something into its constituents parts and describing how they relate to each other
- 14. Importance of Literature Review • It can Introduce you to eminent Scholars • It can increase your confidence in your selected topic • It helps the researcher to get used to the related material on the study • It helps to summarize the results of previous studies
- 15. Purpose of Literature Review • The purpose of literature review is to convey to the reader previous knowledge on a topic • The literature review allows the reader to be updated with the state of research in a field • It helps to develop research tools and to improve research methodologies
- 16. Purpose of Literature Review • It also provides the knowledge about the problems faced by the previous researchers’ while studying the same topic • Describe the relationship of each study to other research studies under consideration • Point a way forward for further research • See what has and has not been investigated