THE PROCESS OF WRITING REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Question 1

These report or describe other people’s experiences or world views. These
give the most number materials such as internet, books, peer-reviewed articles in journals,
published literary reviews of a field, grey literature or unpublished and non-peer reviewed
materials like theses, dissertations, conference proceedings, leaflets and posters, research
studies in progress and other library materials.

Answer 1

Secondary sources

Question 2

These will direct you to the location of other sources.

Answer 2

General references

Question 3

Use your keywords to begin searching for sources. Some useful databases to search for journals and
articles include:

Answer 3

Your university’s library catalogue
Google Scholar
JSTOR
EBSCO
Project Muse (humanities and social sciences)
EconLit (economics)

Question 4

Fraenbell 2012, enumerates the pointers in searching for the best sources of information or data:

Answer 4

1. Choose previous research findings that are closely related to your research.
2. Give more weight to studies done by people possessing expertise or authority in the field of
   knowledge to which the research studies belong.
3. Consider sources of knowledge that refer more to primary data than to secondary data.
4. Prefer getting information from peer-reviewed materials than from general reading materials.

Question 5

In this stage, you can write your overall understanding of the material by paraphrasing or
summarizing what you have read.

Answer 5

Stage 3: Writing the Review
Writing the review

Question 6

You need to read and understand the materials through Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS).
You need to criticize or evaluate, apply and create things about what you have read.

Answer 6

Stage 2: Reading the Source Material

Question 7

Your literature review should include:

Answer 7

Introduction
Body (headings and subheading)
Conclusion