A literature review summarizes and analyzes previous research on a topic. It identifies key sources like research articles, theses, reports, and books. The researcher conducts a literature review to understand what is already known about their topic and how their work relates to past studies. The purpose is to convey previous knowledge on the topic and point the way forward for further research. It helps the researcher develop their study and improve methodologies.

2. Review Writing
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3. What is a Review?
• A review is a type of secondary document that talks about
previously published work
• Review gives an overview of existing work done
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4. Types of Review
Literature
Review
Meta-
Analysis
Systematic
Review
Today, we’ll discuss how to write a Literature Review

5. Literature Review
• Literature Review is the gradual process which the researcher uses
to search out, read and critically evaluating previous works of
scholars related to the problem under investigation
• Summary and Analysis of previous researchers shows how they are
linked to the present study

6. Literature Review
• In order to Understand your study, you need to familiarize yourself
with what other scholars have done in your proposed
topic/project
• In literature review, you are getting the full knowledge of the area
of your interest
• In research proposal, literature review is the second chapter

7. How to Conduct Literature Review

8. Identify the Topic
Choose
Area of
Research
1 Select
Field of
Research
2 Select
Topic of
Research
3 Refine
Topic of
Research
4

9. Sources of Literature Review

10. Primary Sources
Reports
Theses
Emails
Company
Reports
Conference
Reports
Research
Article

11. Secondary Sources
Newspapers
Books
Journals
Internet
Government Publications

12. Reading the Literature
1
• Read abstract of the article
2
• Skim through the article/book
3
• Survey the Main parts of the article/book
4
• Read in detail the selected important parts

13. Analyze the Literature
• Analysis is the job of systematically breaking down something into
its constituents parts and describing how they relate to each other

14. Importance of Literature Review
• It can Introduce you to eminent Scholars
• It can increase your confidence in your selected topic
• It helps the researcher to get used to the related material on the
study
• It helps to summarize the results of previous studies

15. Purpose of Literature Review
• The purpose of literature review is to convey to the reader
previous knowledge on a topic
• The literature review allows the reader to be updated with the
state of research in a field
• It helps to develop research tools and to improve research
methodologies

16. Purpose of Literature Review
• It also provides the knowledge about the problems faced by the
previous researchers’ while studying the same topic
• Describe the relationship of each study to other research studies
under consideration
• Point a way forward for further research
• See what has and has not been investigated