REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES Flashcards
-Taking snapshots capturing major concepts of your topic and showing their relationship
Literature review
- Based on Cristobal (2016), it is a process of compiling, classifying, and evaluating what other researchers have written on a certain topic
Literature review
What are the purposes of literature review
- Improves your understanding of the topic
- Update your readers on your topic
- It shows similar studies conducted
- It makes your research study objective and empirical.
- It builds confidence to the researcher
What are the steps in writing the literature review?
- Collect Sources
- Analyze and Evaluate
- Arrange / Outline
- Summarize & Write
- sources that are recent as much as possible
Collect Sources`
read the important word only
Analytical Reading
read the main title, subhead & abstract
Skimming and scanning the sources
Enumerate the techniques of organizing your sources
- Traditional
- Chronological
- Thematic
- Methodological
- Theoretical
- Local literature & studies
- Foreign literature & studies
Traditional
Older to recent
Chronological
It is according to key themes
Thematic
Comparing different research methods being used across studies
Methodological
discussing opposing theories or model from sources
Theoretical
What are the 3 parts in summarize and write?
- Introduction
- Body
- Conclusion
Enumerate the tips in literature review
- Proofread
- Avoid overuse of the passive voice of verbs in sentences
- check for repetitive phrases
- don’t use informal language
- use cohesive devices/ transition words
- use topic sentences to draw connections, comparisons, contrasts between ideas
- don’t plagiarize, use proper citation