The Basic Steps in Doing Literature Review

 The Basic Steps in Doing Literature Review

1.       What is literature review?

•       a survey of scholarly sources on a specific topic

•       provides

•       an overview of current knowledge

•       allowing you to identify

•       relevant theories

•       methods

•       gaps in the existing research.

2.       Why write literature review?

·         Demonstrate your familiarity with the topic and scholarly context

·         Develop a theoretical framework and methodology for your research

·         Position yourself in relation to other researchers and theorists

·         Show how your research addresses a gap or contributes to a debate

 

3.       Five Key Steps in Doing Literature Review

a.       Search for relevant literature

b. 

b.    Evaluate sources

c.       Identify themes, debates and gaps

d.       Outline the structure

e.       Write your literature review

 

4.       Step 1 Search for relevant literature

·         a clearly defined topic.

·         related to your research problem and questions

·         a list of keywords related to your research question

·         useful databases to search for journals and articles include:

·         Your university’s library catalogue

·         Google Scholar

·         JSTOR

·         EBSCO

·         Project Muse (humanities and social sciences)

·         use boolean operators

·         AND, OR, NOT.

·         take note of recurring citations

• ·     

5.       Step 2 Evaluate sources

·         question or problem

·         key concepts

·         key theories, models and methods

·         results and conclusions

·         key insights and arguments

·         strengths and weaknesses

 

6.       Identify themes, debates and gaps

·         Popularity of Trends and patterns (in theory, method or results

·         Recurring Themes

·         Debates, conflicts and contradictions

·         Gaps

·         What is missing from the literature?

·         Are there weaknesses that need to be addressed?

 

7.       Outline the structure

·         Chronological

·          trace the development of the topic over time.

·         Recurring Themes

·         Methodological

·         what results have emerged in qualitative versus quantitative research

·         Theoretical

·         A literature review is often the foundation for a theoretical framework.

 

8.       Write your literature review

·         Introduction

·         The introduction should clearly establish the focus and purpose of the literature review.

·         Body

·         Summarize and synthesize

·         Analyze and interpret

·         Critically evaluate

·         Write in well-structured paragraphs

·         Conclusion

·         In the conclusion, you should summarize the key findings you have taken from the literature and emphasize their significance.

 

9. Literature Review Template

https://phdjustdidit.blogspot.com/2019/10/literature-review-template.html

 

 

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