How to review literature

1. LITERATURE REVIEW
LITERATURE REVIEW SHARING OF IDEAS ,
PROVIDES FRAME WORK ,BENCHMARK FOR
COMARING RESULTS
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3. CONTD LITERATURE
• Is based on research design , and problem
• Literature review of Qualitative study differs
with Quantitative study
• Quantitative studies ;Literature review
provides direction or hypothesis
• In QS lit is used deductively as a framework
• INTEGRATVE LIT REV (Cooper , 1984 ) includes
summaries of past researches . It is used in
dissertation writing or propsal

4. SOURCES OF REVIEW LIT.
• Print media
• 1. books 2.journals
• 1.Books – “. Findings are integrated with other
research to form a coherent body of
knowledge “(Martin , 1985 : 33 )
• Materials are not updated
• 2.Journals :
• Most recent researches are published

5. Cooper .contd lit review
• THEORETICAL REVIEW refers to theoretical
review
• Theoretical review is useful in journal articles
• Methodological review includes review of
methods
• Note: INTEGRATIVE , THEORETICAL AND
METHODOLIGCIAL (COOPER ,1984 )
• A model for delimiting the literature
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6. How much literature to rev. COOPER
its difficult to determine how much
literature to review .
Guidelines :Consider Problem ,
Question Raised , Independent and
Dependent Variables and Hypothesis

7. SOURCES OF REVIEW LIT
PRINT MEDIA
BOOKS
JOURNALS