Literature review

2. 1. What is a literature review?
2. What makes a good literature
review?
3. Why is the literature review
necessary?

3.  An annotated bibliography
 A list of unrelated resources
 An argument about the
importance of your research

4.  “Documents that describe the past and
current state of information on the topic of
your research” (p.80)
 “The selection of available documents and the
effective evaluation of these documents in
relation to the research being proposed (Hart,
2003. p.13 )

5.  Attains good knowledge of the field
 Common methodologies in the field
 Proposed research is really needed
 Helps to narrow a problem

6. Identify key
terms
Locate
literature
Critically
evaluate and
select the
literature
Organize
the
literature
Write a
literature
review

7.  What key terms did you search?
 How/why did you select them?Identify
key
terms
Locate
literature
Where did you locate the literature?
Database, dictionaries, books, web
pages, repositories, journals,
conferences, etc
What did you find difficult?
Where should you look for more
literature?

8.  Why did you select the literature?
Similar topic/individuals/ research
question or accessible
 Is the literature relevant?
 What did you include in the annotated
bibliography? Research problem,
questions, Instruments, findings?
Critically
evaluate
and
select the
literature
Organize
the
literature
 Construct a literature map. To do that:
1. Identify key terms of your topic and
place them on the top of the map
2. Organize the studies into groups of
related topical areas, choronological
order, known to unkown order

9.  Write in the past tense, except when
discussing the significance (use the present
tense)

10.  Use one the two models to write the literature
review
1. thematic review
2. study by study review
 Write an introduction to the literature review:
Explain the importance of this, they way you
organize the studies and the topics you mention
 Write a concluding statement of the review:
summarize the major themes found and provide
a rationale for the need for the sutdy or the
importance of the research

11.  Choose on these two models to write
the literature review (include
minimum 6 studies)
1. thematic review
2. study by study review
 Write between 4 and 5 pages
 Write an introduction and a
concluding statement of the review.
Write a
literature
review