Chapter 3(a)_ Review of Relevant Literature.ppt

Here the process regarding review of relevant literature has been discussed.

1. Review of Relevant Literature

2. Review of Literature
•A literature review is an evaluative report of information
found in the literature related to your selected area of study.
 
•The review should describe, summarize, evaluate and clarify
this literature.
  It should give a theoretical base for the
research and help you determine the nature of your research.
Works which are irrelevant should be discarded and those
which are peripheral should be looked at critically.

3. Review of Literature
•A literature review is more than the search for information,
and goes beyond being a descriptive annotated bibliography.
• All works included in the review must be read, evaluated and
analyzed (which you would do for an annotated
bibliography), but relationships between the literature must
also be identified and articulated, in relation to your field of
research.

4. Review of Literature
•In writing the literature review, the purpose is to convey to the
reader what knowledge and ideas have been established on a
topic, and what their strengths and weaknesses are. The
literature review must be defined by a guiding concept (eg.
your research objective, the problem or issue you are
discussing, or your argumentative thesis).
•It is not just a descriptive list of the material available, or a set
of summaries.

5. Review of Literature
In general, the literature review should:
•provide a context for the research
•justify the research
•ensure the research hasn't been done before (or if
it is repeated, that it is marked as a "replication
study")
•show where the research fits into the existing
body of knowledge
•enable the researcher to learn from previous
theory on the subject

6. Purpose
•illustrate how the subject has been
studied previously
•highlight flaws in previous research
•outline gaps in previous research
•show that the work is adding to the
understanding and knowledge of the
field
•help refine, refocus or even change the
topic

7. Review of Literature

8. Importance of the literature Review
A review of previous documents to similar or
related phenomena is essential even for beginning
researchers. If the researcher is aware of earlier
studies of his topic or related topics, he will be in
much better position to asses the significance of
his own work.

9. Reviewing of Literature
Importance / Necessity:
 It prevents researcher from duplicating work that
has done before.
 It prevents blind search.
 It helps to find out what others have learned and
reported on the problem.

10. Reviewing of Literature
Importance / Necessity:
 It should provide with convincing argument for
why the particular research topic is needed.
 It helps researcher to become familiar with the
various type of methodology that followed by
others.