3.Literature Review.pptx

1. Literature Review

2. Literature Review
• What is Literature ?
• It is a collection of scholarly writings on a topic.
• Sources of scholarly writings?
Articles published in Journals (peer reviewed)
Conference Proceedings/Paper
Books written on a topic
Thesis or Dissertation
Patents
Government documents

3. Literature Review
What is Review ?
• It Is a snapshot of major concept. (demonstrating knowledge)
What is Literature review?
Analysis and evaluation of an existing body of knowledge on a topic of
your proposed research.

4. Literature Review
Remember
• Literature review is not an essay writing activity.
• It is not a work report what others have done.
• Avoid comparative writing instead do themes synthesizing.

5. Literature Review
1) In literature review you have to develop a relation between the
findings of different scholarly works. Interpretation is import.
2) You have to write a chain story.
3) It like updating your reader who is not aware of your research topic.

6. Literature Review
• How to develop
• a relation?
A information
B information
C information
D new idea
E agree D
information
My
Idea
Agree
Disagree
New
Information

7. Literature Review
• Why Literature Review is Important ?
1. It helps you to understand your research topic in detail
a. Instruments used, data collection methods
b. results and discussions.
2. Tells you what knowledge is already available in published form.
3. Helps to develop your own ideas
4. Sets boundaries for your research work.

8. Literature Review
• C et al 2017 [1] has reported …………………
Authority of the work
Bridge load management …. been reported [1,2,3]
Scientific Pattern

9. Literature Review
• Tips for a successful Literature Review:
1. Start writing from the day you read your first literature.
It helps you to modify your ideas in a scholarly style.
• 2. Keep track of citations ( Software like Endnote, Refworks, Zotero)
Use of software strengthen your search capabilities for editing .
• 3. Read the most latest publication
MS students at least read last 10 years of publications on the topic.

10. Literature Review
• How to start a review process?
1.)Decide a research topic
2.) Source the scholarly literature (collect)
(google scholar, researchgate, Library, etc)
3.) Read the literature
4.) Write a chain of concepts based on others voices. (Analyze)
5.) Make connections what is published and proposed earlier. (Arrange)
Find what is missing and what you can do in your research. (Gap)
-Chronological -Geographically -Conceptually

11. Literature Review
How you know what to read?
- See how many times a literature is cited in publications.
- http://scholar.google.com.pk/
- Read authors who have more literature published on same topic.
- Read articles from high impact factor journals.

12. Literature Review
How your Literature review should look like?
• Start with topic Introduction or research question (purpose statement).
• Synthesized relation of concepts presented by others.
• Your proposed idea of research.
• A brief and focused summary.

13. Literature Review
• Most of us think Literature Review is a writing task.
• No In reality, Literature Review is a knowledge networking task.

14. What is Literature review?
Analysis and evaluation of an existing body of knowledge on
a topic.
• Thanks
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