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    Writing a

    literature review

    Source: Some info were extracted from Wiess, M. (2019) and Potts, A.
    (2019)
    Understand the purpose of a literature
    review

    Think about what your own literature


    review will look like
    Learning
    Outcomes Critical thinking, reading and writing the
    LR

    Planning and structuring options for LR


    • Establishes the terms and context. How else will you define exactly
    what you’re looking at and where its limits are?
    • Presents a survey of preceding literature on the topic. How else will
    you know what’s been done already?
    • Explores ways that others have solved similar questions/problems.
    Purpose of How else will you select an appropriate methodology and
    approach?

    having a • Outlines the relationship of these texts to each other. How else will
    you know what the different perspectives and debates are, and

    literature where you are coming from?


    • Evaluates the quality and relevance of the literature. How else will

    review you be able to build on or reject it?


    • Establishes the gaps or inadequacies. How else will you justify your
    own contribution?
    • Demonstrates your scholarly rigor. How else can I have faith in your
    conclusions?
    • A critical analysis of existing research in your field; it highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of existing
    research

    • Allows you to gain a critical understanding of your field

    • Opportunity to think about what has been done in your field; opportunity to think about the similarities, patterns,
    trends and also differences across the existing research

    • By identifying strengths and weakness, you will be able to think about what has not/needs to be done in your field

    • The gap in the literature is your justification for your research


    More than just a chapter

    A literature review is a process as well as an Literature review as an outcome: appears in the Literature review as a process: critical
    outcome! final draft of your thesis as part of your engagement (thinking, reading and writing) with
    introduction or as a separate chapter. relevant research on your topic. It is a crucial and
    formative stage of your thesis journey.
    Level of LR
    • Undergraduate level: backing your points up with appropriate, authoritative
    sources
    • Masters Level: demonstrating that you understand how knowledge is created
    • PhD Level: demonstrating that you can create new, original knowledge
    • Professional academic: peer review, building a coherent body of work of your
    own and assuring others’ work
    Think about:

    • What were the research aims of the paper/book?


    • Is the research aim achieved? If so, how did they do
    it?
    Reading • Are there any problems with their methodology?

    Critically • Was it a strong or a weak research model?


    • How will this research help with your own research?
    • What can you take from it?
    • What needs to be avoided?
    • What are you doing differently?
    Who are the key players in my field? This could be
    anything from academics, medics, governing bodies,
    schools of thought etc. (Sources!)

    Starting to What are the main ideas/debates in my field?

    think about
    your own How have these ideas changed over time?

    literature
    What are some of the problems with these
    review ideas/debates? Is there a problem with the
    methodology?

    What are you going to do differently?


    • First stage of the literature review is to identify
    the key people in your field and collate all
    relevant sources about your topic.

    Ask yourself:
    What research and theory is there on my topic?
    Key Players
    What are the key sources (books, articles) on
    my topic? and Sources
    Who are the main theorists and researchers in
    this area?
    How has the topic/problem been investigated
    over time?
    Steps for Writing a Lit
    Review

    • Planning
    • Reading and Research
    • Analyzing
    • Drafting
    • Revising
    Planning
    What Type of Literature Review
    Am I Writing?
    • Focus
    • What is the specific thesis, problem, or
    research question that my literature review
    helps to define?
    • Identifying a focus that allows you to:
    • Sort and categorize information
    Planning • Eliminate irrelevant information
    • Type
    • What type of literature review am I
    conducting?
    • Theory; Methodology; Policy; Quantitative;
    Qualitative
    • Planning is about organising the structure of your literature review (your story
    will help with this!)

    • How ill you organise the information?


    • Chronologically?
    • Thematically?
    • By trends/approaches/techniques?
    • Major debates/controversies?
    • Probably a combination of these
    • Scope
    • What is the scope of my literature review?
    • What types of sources am I using?
    Planning
    • Academic Discipline
    • What field(s) am I working in?
    Systematic Methods for Literature Reviews
    • Systematic Review
    • Meta analysis
    • Bibliometric
    • Scientometric
    Reading and
    Researching
    What Materials
    Am I Going to Use?
    • Collect and read material.
    • Summarize sources.
    • Who is the author?
    • What is the author's main purpose?
    • What is the author’s theoretical perspective? Research

    Reading and methodology?


    • Who is the intended audience?

    Researching • What is the principal point, conclusion, thesis,


    contention, or question?
    • How is the author’s position supported?
    • How does this study relate to other studies of the
    problem or topic?
    • What does this study add to your project?
    • Select only relevant books and articles.
    Analyzing
    How Do I Assess
    Existing Research?
    • A literature review is never just a list of
    studies—it always offers an argument about a
    Analyzing body of research

    Sources • Analysis occurs on two levels:


    • Individual sources
    • Body of research
    Four Analysis Tasks of the Literature Review

    TASKS OF
    LITERATURE
    REVIEW

    SUMMARIZE SYNTHESIZE CRITIQUE COMPARE


    • In your own words, summarize and/or
    synthesize the key findings relevant to your
    study.

    • What do we know about the immediate area?


    Summary and
    Synthesis • What are the key arguments, key
    characteristics, key concepts or key figures?

    • What are the existing debates/theories?

    • What common methodologies are used?


    • Normadin has demonstrated… Sample
    • Early work by Hausman, Schwarz, and Graves
    was concerned with… Language for
    • Elsayed and Stern compared algorithms for
    handling…
    Summary and
    • Additional work by Karasawa et. al, Azadivar, Synthesis
    and Parry et. al deals with…
    • Under the restriction of small populations,
    four possible ways [to avoid premature
    convergence] were presented. The first one is to
    Example: revise the gene operators. . . .Griffiths and Miles
    applied advanced two-dimensional gene
    Summary and operators to search the optimal cross-section of
    a beam and significantly improve results. The
    Synthesis second way is to adjust gene probability. Leite
    and Topping adopted a variable mutation
    probability and obtained an outperformed
    result.
    • Piaget’s theory of stages of cognitive
    development and Erikson’s stages of
    psychosocial development are commonly used
    Example: for educational psychology courses (Borich &
    Tombari, 1997; LeFrancois, 1997; Slavin, 1997).
    Summary and Piaget described characteristic behaviors,
    including artistic ones such as drawing, as
    Synthesis evidence of how children think and what
    children do as they progress beyond
    developmental milestones into and through
    stages of development.
    Comparison and Critique
    • Evaluates the strength and weaknesses of the work:

    • How do the different studies relate? What is new, different, or controversial?

    • What views need further testing?

    • What evidence is lacking, inconclusive, contradicting, or too limited?

    • What research designs or methods seem unsatisfactory?


    Sample Language for
    Comparison and Critique
    • In this ambitious but flawed study, Jones and Wang…
    • These general results, reflecting the stochastic nature of the flow of goods, are
    similar to those reported by Rosenblatt and Roll…
    • The critical response to the poetry of Phillis
    Wheatley often registers disappointment or
    surprise. Some critics have complained that the
    Example: verse of this African American slave is insecure
    Comparison (Collins 1975, 78), imitative (Richmond 1974,
    54-66), and incapacitated (Burke 1991, 33,
    and Critique 38)—at worst, the product of a “White mind”
    (Jameson 1974, 414-15). Others, in contrast,
    have applauded Wheatley’s critique of Anglo-
    American discourse(Kendrick 1993,222-23), her
    revision of literary models…
    Example: • The situationist model has also received its share
    Comparison of criticism. One of the most frequently cited
    shortcomings of this approach centers around
    and Critique the assumption that individuals enter into the
    work context tabula rasa.
    • As you start reading the literature, you will soon
    Develop a discover that the problem you wish to
    investigate has its roots in a number of theories
    theoretical that have been developed from different
    perspectives.
    framework
    • The conceptual framework stems from the
    theoretical framework and concentrates, Develop a
    usually, on one section of that theoretical
    framework which becomes the basis of your conceptual
    study.
    framework
    Examples of conceptual framework
    Examples of
    conceptual
    framework

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