WRITING A LITERATURE

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Introduction

The introduction should identify your topic, some discussion of the significance of that topic and a thesis statement that outlines what conclusion you will draw from your analysis and synthesis of the literature. If your literature review is part of a larger work, explain the importance of thereview to your research question.

A literature review is a survey of everything that has been written about a particular topic, theory, or research question. It may provide the background for larger work, or it may stand on its own.

Much more than a simple list of sources, an effective literature review analyzes and synthesizes information about key themes or issues.

What is a literature review?

In the body, discuss and assess the research according to specific organizational principles , rather than addressing each source separately. Most, if not all, paragraphs should discuss more than one source. Avoid addressing your sources alphabetically as this does not assist in developing the themes or key issues central to your review.

BODY

Principle When to Use Example    

Theme

-When explaining key themes or issues relevant to the topic

 -This is the most common way to organize literature reviews.

A literature review of 31 relevant articles published between January1999 and March 2004 identified 12 categories of neighborhood characteristics relevant to maternal and child health: income/wealth, employment, family structure, population composition, housing, mobility, education, occupation, social resources, violence and crime, deviant behavior and physical conditions.

 Methodology (also called a methodology review)

When discussing interdisciplinary approaches to a topic or when discussing a number of studies witha different approach.

In dentistry, fluorescent imaging been used for many applicationsrevealing a variety of information about bonded restorations. This review evaluates the different methods used in this area with the intent of determining if standardized methodologies exist.

      

Chronology

    When historical changes are central to explaining the topic.

A literature review is presented on the evolution of water pollutionmanagement and its impact on land pollution from 1900 to 2000 within a hypothesis of whether we could have done more, sooner. Stream pollution science in the context of the fundamental sanitary engineering concepts of reasonable use and assimilative capacity is examined in light of evolving regulatory frameworks from the early1900s, when regulation and standards were mostly lacking, to the zero discharge goals and comprehensive federal command/control regulations of the late 20th century.

Organizing Principles

STEPS AND STRATEGIES FOR WRITING LITERATURE REVIEW

Steps Strategies

Locate Relevant Literature.

Identify key terms in your topic.Identify key authors and journals.Use state-of-the-art articles.Scan tables of contents from key journals.Use reference lists from articles, books, etc. Avoid the popular press.

STEPS AND STRATEGIES FOR WRITING LITERATURE REVIEW

Steps Strategies

Critically read the literature.

Identify strengths & weaknesses of individual articlesIdentify strengths and weaknesses of the field as a whole

STEPS AND STRATEGIES FOR WRITING LITERATURE REVIEW

Steps Strategies

Prepare to writeInvestigate expected length and format of the LR.Make a preliminary outline.Organize the literature you will cover.Limit the scope of the review to the topic at hand.

STEPS AND STRATEGIES FOR WRITING LITERATURE REVIEW

Steps Strategies

Write the introduction.Write sub-sections.Use transition markers.Synthesize and critically evaluate LR.Be careful not to plagiarize.Practise summarizing & paraphrasing.  

Write the Review.

STEPS AND STRATEGIES FOR WRITING A LITERATURE REVIEW

Steps Strategies

Indicate the gap.

Use the review to lead to your research questions.(Unresolved issues)

What is the purpose of Literature Review ?

Purpose - to convey what

knowledge and ideas have been established on a topic, and what their strengths

and weaknesses are.

As a piece of writing, the literature review must be defined by a guiding concept (e.g., our research objective, the problem or issue you are discussing, or your argumentative thesis).

It is not just a descriptive list of the material available, or a set of summaries

A GOOD LITERATURE REVIEW IS:

• Focused - The topic should be narrow.

You should only present ideas and only report on studies that are closely related to topic.• Concise - Ideas should be presented economically. Don’t take any more space than you need to present your ideas.

• Logical - The flow within and among paragraphs should be a smooth, logical progression from one idea to the next

• Developed - Don’t leave the story halftold.

• Integrative - Your paper should stress how the ideas in the studies are related. Focus on the big picture. What commonality do all the studies share? How are some studies different than others? Your paper should stress how all the studies reviewed contribute to your topic. • Current - Your review should focus on work being done on the cutting edge of your topic.

Conclusion

The conclusion should provide a summary of YOUR findings from the literature

review. Explain what your analysis of the material leads you to conclude about the

overall state of the literature,what it provides and where it is lacking. You can also

provide suggestions for future research or explain how your future research will fill the

gaps in the existing body of work on that topic.

REFERENCE

• DR. WARREN A. RAMOS ( POWER POINT )

• ALLYSON SKENE. THE WRITING CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AT SCARBOROUGH. SEE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE AT HTTP://WWW.UTSC.UTORONTO.CA/~CTL/TWC/TERMS.HTML

• MR. MUTAHAR AL-NAHARI ( POWER POINT )

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