Review of Related Literature and Studies

CHAPTER II
Review of Related Literature and Studies

Lesson Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the student should be
able to:
1.explain the meaning of review of related
literature;
2.carry out a review of related literature properly;
3.compare and contrast the styles of review of
related literature; and;
4.Critically evaluate review of related literature
reports.
Meaning of Review of Related Literature
Literature is an oral or written record of man’s significant
experiences that are artistically conveyed in a prosaic manner.
Embodied in any literary work like essay, novel, journal, story,
biography, etc. are man’s best thoughts and feelings about the
world.
Direct expressions of man- knowledge of the world are in books,
periodicals, and online reading materials.
Indirect expressions of man- are his inferences or reflections of
his surroundings that are not written or spoken at all. (Wallman
2014)
Review of related literature is an analysis of
man’s written or spoken knowledge of the world. You
examine representations of man’s thinking about the
world to determine the connection of your research
with the people already know about it. Hence in doing
your RRL, you deal with both direct and indirect
expressions of man’s knowledge.

Purposes of Review of Related Literature
1.To obtain background knowledge of your research.
2.To relate your study to the current condition or situation
on the world.
3.To show the capacity of your research work to introduce
new knowledge.
4.To expand, prove, or disprove the findings of previous
research studies.
5.To increase your understandings of the underlying
theories, principles, or concepts of your research.
Purposes of Review of Related Literature
6.To explain technical terms involved in your research

study.
7.To highlight the significance of your work with the kind
of evidence it gathered to support the conclusion of your
research.
8.To avoid repeating previous research studies.
9.To recommend the necessity of further research on a
certain topic.

Styles and Approaches of Review of Related Literature
1. Traditional Review of Literature

To do a review of literature in a traditional way is to
summarize present forms of knowledge on a specific
subject. Your aim here is to give an expanded or new
understanding of an existing work.

Styles and Approaches of Review of Related Literature
1. Systematic Review of Literature
As indicated by its name, systematic, which means
methodical, is a style of RRL that involves sequential acts
of review of related literature. Unlike the traditional review
that has no particular method, systematic review requires
you to go through the following RRL steps (Ridley 2012)
Steps in Reviewing Related Literature
1. Have a clear understanding of the research questions. Serving as
the compass to direct your research activities, the research
questions tell you what to collect and where to obtain those data
you want to collect.
2. Plan your manner of obtaining the data. Imagining how will you
get to where the data are, you will come to think also of what
keywords to use for easy searching and how to accord courtesy
and respect to people or institutions from where the data will
come such as planning how to communicate your request to these
sources of data.
3. Do the literature research.

Steps in Reviewing Related Literature
4. Using a certain standard, determine which data, studies, or
sources of knowledge are valuable or not to warrant the
reasonableness of your decision to take some data and junk the
rest.
5. Determine the methodological soundness of the research
studies. Used a checklist or a certain set of criteria in assessing
the ways researchers conduct their studies to arrive at a certain
conclusion.
6. Summarize what you have gathered from various sources of
data. To concisely present a synthesis of your report, use a graph
such as table and other presentation formats that are not prone to
verbosity.

The Process of Review of Related Literature
STAGE 1: Search for the Literature
This is the stage of review of related literature where you
devote much of your time in looking for sources of
knowledge, data, or information to answer your research
questions or to support your assumptions about your
research topic.
STAGE 1: Search for the Literature
Generally, there are three basics types of literature sources; general
references- that will direct you to the location of other sources;
primary sources- that directly report or present a person’s own
experiences; and secondary sources- that report or describe other
people’s experiences or worldviews.
You can have an access to these various sources of data in two

methods: manually or getting hold of the printed form of material,
and electronically or having a computer or online reading of the
sources of knowledge.

Here are the pointers you have to remember in searching for
the best sources of information or data: (Fraenbell 2012)
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.
STAGE 2: Reading the Source Material

Reading, understanding, or making the materials
meaningful to you is that will pre occupy you on the
second stage of reading RRL. You can benefit much
from your reading activities if you confront the reading
materials with the help of your HOTS.
STAGE 3: Writing the Review
You do a great deal of idea connection and organization in
this last stage of RRL to form an overall understanding of
the material by paraphrasing or summarizing it. In doing
either of these two you get to change the arrangement of
ideas, structures of the language, and the format of the text
using appropriate organizational techniques of comparison-
contrast, chronological order, spatial relationship order and
transitional devices.
STAGE 3: Writing the Review
Opening an article with a bibliographical list that begins with the authors
name like the following examples is not good.
Aquino (2015) said…
Roxas (2016) stated…
Perez (2017) wrote…
Mendoza (2018) asserted…
Examples of better article openings manifesting critical thinking through
analysis, comparison and contrast of ideas and findings are as follows:
One early work by (Castro, 2017) proves that…
Another study on the topic by (Torres, 2017) maintains that…
The latest study by (Gomez, 2018) reveals that…
A research study by (Rivera, 2017) explains that…
Example transitional devices

Also, additionally, again, similarity, a similar opinion, however,
conversely, on the other hand, nevertheless, a contrasting opinion, a
different approach etc.

Examples of Active Verbs
Analyse, argues, assess, assert, assume, claim, compare, contrast,
conclude, debate, defend, define, demonstrate etc.
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CHAPTER II

Review of Related Literature and Studies

6.To explain technical terms involved in your research

1. Traditional Review of Literature

You can have an access to these various sources of data in two

1. Choose previous research findings that are closely related to your

STAGE 2: Reading the Source Material

Example transitional devices

CHAPTER 2 (will be submitted on April 21,

Presentations of Chapters 1&2

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