Lesson: Literature Review Flashcards
Fink (2005) defines it as “a systematic, explicit, and reproducible method for identifying, evaluating, and synthesizing the existing body of completed and recorded work produced by researchers, scholars, and practitioners.” __________ are critical surveys of existing literature.
Literature Review
Fundamentals of Literature Review
Is to provide an overview of what is known about the topic and to assess the strength of the evidence on that topic.
Purpose of a Literature Review
It usually contains a summary, a synthesis, or an analysis of the main assertions in the existing literature.
Literature Review
Literature may be taken from what kind of sources?
Books, journal articles, reports, or working papers
Fundamentals of Literature Review
What are two Characteristics of Related Literature?
• Except for theories, the related literature to cite should have been written in the last ten years
• The literature to cite must be relevant to the current study.
Fundamentals of Literature Review
It provides justification of the proposed project and enables researchers to define the boundaries of their study, defining what makes the study different from those done by other researchers.
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Functions of a Review of Related Literature
Fundamentals of Literature Review
May be sourced through articles published in scholarly journals, law and constitution books, and other general reference materials.
Related Literature
Fundamentals of Literature Review
Related literature may be sourced through what?
Articles published in scholarly journals, law and constitution books, and other general reference materials.
Fundamentals of Literature Review
It may also include grey literature such as?
Working papers, conference proceedings and reports from seminars, manuscripts, monographs and memoirs, official reports from the government, as well as records of schools.
Fundamentals of Literature Review
Where to Locate the Sources of Related Literature?
common sources are libraries, government offices, schools, private institutions and corporations, and international institutions such as the Asian Development Bank and the like.
A very common source is electronic journals that provide refereed journals on various disciplines.
Fundamentals of Literature Review
What to Review?
We want to know the present status of the research about a particular topic, question, or field
