writing review of related literature

1. Review of
Literature (ROL)
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2. What Is the Big Question for A
Research??????? !!!!!!!!!
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4. Objectives of the Session
 To define the term Review of Related
Literature
 To Understand the Purpose and Process of
Reviewing the Literature
 To acquire the skills of searching the most
appropriate reviews from the available
sources
 To enhance the skills of analysis for writing
reviews that would help to bridge the gap of
researches conducted in the past and
research to be taken up for the future
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5.  “and then it's like a whole new set of rooms
opens on the side of my brain, an entire wing
of the house that was built before I learned to
read but was never lived in, these beautiful
furnished empty rooms I had no idea were
there.”
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6. What is the literature Review
Review of literature is a collective body of
works done by earlier scientists and
published in the form of books or in the form
of articles in journals or published as
monograph etc.
Every scientific investigation starts with a
Review of Literature
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7. Definition
According to university of wincosin writing
centre
“critical analysis of a segment of a published
body of knowledge through summary,
classification, and comparison of prior research
studies, reviews of literature, and theoretical
articles”
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9. Purpose of Review of Literature
Specific purpose
 Identifying variables relevant for research
 Avoidance of repetition
 Synthesis of prior works
 Determining meaning and relationship among
variables
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10. Additional Reasons
In addition to these specific purposes, there are
some general purposes of the literature review:
 To argue for the relevance and the significance of
the research question.
 To provide the context for one’s own
methodological approach
 To establish one’s own credibility as a
knowledgeable and capable researcher.
 To argue for the relevance and appropriateness
of one’s own approach
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11. Diagram of the review
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12. SOURCES OF THE REVIEW OF
LITERATURE
 Journals and Books
 Reviews
 Abstracts
 Indexes
 Internet
 Doctoral Dissertations
 Supervisors/Research Professors
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13. Types Of The Review Of
Literature: For Sciences and
Social Sciences
 Subject-Specific Books
 Grey
 Official Publications, Archives and Statistics
Official Publications, Archives and Statistics
 Writing Aids
 Journal Articles
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14. Steps of Literature review
 Select a topic
 Search & Choose the review literature
 Analyse and Interpret the literature
 Write the review
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15. Key points of a literature review
• Tell me what the research says(Theory)
• Tell me how the research was carried out
(Methodology)
• Tell me what is missing or the gap that
research intends to fill.(Research gap
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16. Understanding what is needed
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17. Reviewing the literature
 What was the question of the research study?
What were the cited and referenced authors trying
to discover or prove?
 Was the research of the cited author being funded
by an influencing source?
 What were the methodologies used in the cited
works? Analyze the whole literature, all the
sample, variables, results, and conclusions.
 Was the research completed? Did it get to a point,
proving or discovering something?
 Our studies in conflict with the one being
presented? Is the other more influential or giving a
proved answer?
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18. WRITING PROCESS OF THE
REVIEW OF LITERATURE :
Scientific and Social Sciences
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21. Format / style of Writing Reviews
 Year
 Author(s) + Year
 Title
 APA Reference
 Type of Resource
 Abstract
 Keywords
 Location (Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Other)
 Purpose/Objectives
 Research Questions
 Survey/Interview/Focus Group Questions
 Sample
 Quantitative/Qualitative Design
 Main Findings
 Notes (where I put quotations I might want to use)
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22. Basic search Strategy
 Reading
 Abstracting
 Critiquing Articles
 Indexing
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23. Critiquing Research
 A research Critique is an analysis of the
research undertaking that focuses on its
strengths and limitations,
 Critiquing is a systematic process for
evaluating research studies and the results
reported
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24. Purpose of Research Critiquing
“The purpose of a Research Critique is to
determine whether the findings are usable for
you”
Brink & Wood , 2001,p.57
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25. Why Do a Research Critique?
 Not All Published research is scientifically
sound
 Results may have little support for their
validity and may reflect a bias
Therefore we need to
Understand the purpose and problem
while determining the design and methodology
of the purpose and reflect on the quality
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26. Elements of Critiquing Research
 Substantive & theoretical dimensions
 Methodological dimensions
 Ethical dimensions
 Interpretative dimensions
 Presentation/stylistic dimensions
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27. Abstracting
 An abbreviated and accurate representation
of significant substance of a documentary unit
 An abstract is a summary usually by a
professional, other than the author, of
essential contents of a work, usually an article
in a periodical together with the specification
of its original”.(Ranganathan)
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28. Types of Abstract
 Structured abstract: Description of published paper In
which the information is • systematic • stylized • broken
down under the main heading All these things gave us
whole article information.
 Un structured abstract: which did not gave us the
heading. which gave us the paragraph of whole article.
Special requirement for single publication.
 Descriptive abstract: Point out the relationship among
the topic. Considered working and write an abstract.
As an abstract provide background information. Use
paragraph generously to discuss the topic.
 Critical abstract: This is a critical evaluation of Article.
Compare with other work. Critical abstract is a’
condensed critical review
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29. Indexing
 An index consists of short indention of
information with an adequate bibliographical
citation
 Index help to locate the required information
 The index is only used for fact-finding
 An index is usually indicative
 An Index is not a real surrogate of the
document
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30.  Finally The flow of steps for reviewing the
literature in Sciences and Social Sciences
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32.  Sample of Review of Literature ---
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