CHAPTER 3

Question 1

WHAT IS LITERATURE REVIEW?

Answer 1

you organized and evaluated what researchers have written about a topic, focusing on your research questions, objectives, or main issue

Question 2

WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF LITERATURE REVIEW (4)

Answer 2

• to demonstrate a familiarity with a body of knowledge and establish credibilty
• to show the path of prior research and how current projects is linked to it
• to integrate and summarize what is known in an area
• to learn from others and stimulate new ideas

Question 3

WHAT’S THE REASONS FOR LITERATURE REVIEW?

Answer 3

• To broaden your knowledge base in your research area.
• To bring clarity and focus to your research problem.
• To identify gaps in current knowledge.
• To avoid repeating past mistakes
• To build a research network.
• To identify different viewspoint.

Question 4

WHAT’S THE MANDATORY CONCERNS WHEN REVIEWING THE LITERATURE?

Answer 4

• Be organized and focus within the locus of research
  questions or research objectives.
• Identify the areas of controversy in the literature and highlight them.
• Synthesize the results and findings of the research that have been reviewed.

Question 5

THE APPROACHES TO REVIEW LITERATURE

Answer 5

• Narrow perspective
• Broad perspective

Question 6

WHAT IS NARROW PERSPECTIVE?

Answer 6

The focus is directly on the research questions only.

Question 7

WHAT IS BROAD PERSPECTIVE?

Answer 7

The focus is on the research questions as well as others area pertaining to the research issues amd the variables concerned

Question 8

WHAT ARE THE PROCEDURE FOR REVIEWING THE LITERATURE?

Answer 8

• Search for existing literature
• Review the selected literature
• Develop a theoretical framework
• Develop a conceptual framework
• Writing the literature review

Question 9

There are two step in searching for literature review

Answer 9

• Find – the first step is to use keywords to search variouslibraries or on-line catalogues for potentially useful information and ideas.-
• Evaluate – here you need to look at three elements:
  • Sources
  • Content
  • Useful

Question 10

CONTENT IN LITERATURE REVIEW

Answer 10

introduction: define the topic, provide an appropriate context for reviewing the literature review
body: group the literature according to common themes
conclusion: summarize mayor contributions of the literature

Question 11

What is citations?

Answer 11

A summary or synopsis of what someone else said.

Question 12

What is quotations?

Answer 12

It is a word for word description of other people’s work

Question 13

What are the patterns of citation?

Answer 13

• Phrase from single source
• Generalization or combine attribution
• Quotation

Question 14

phrase of single sources

Answer 14

Reference one source.

Question 15

What are combined sources?

Answer 15

Summarize multiple sources with the same idea.

Question 16

What is Quotations?

Answer 16

Use exact words from other sources

Question 17

References vs. Bibliography:

Answer 17

References: Cited sources within your work.
Bibliography: Additional sources read but not cited directly.