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OVERVIEW. WHAT IS A LITERATURE REVIEW? PURPOSES OF A LITERATURE REVIEW. orient your reader by defining key concepts (theoretical) and/or providing relevant background (empirical) “motivate” your research, i.e. demonstrating the relevance of your project.
Writing a literature review in the pre or post-qualification, will be required to undertake a literature review, either as part of a course of study, as a key step in the research process.
This handout will focus on defining what a literature review is, how to organize and synthesize information, and what the different parts of a literature review are. The Purpose of a Literature Review. A literature review demonstrates your ability to research; it also showcases your expertise on your chosen topic.
A GOOD LITERATURE REVIEW SHOULD… • Be organized around a thesis statement or research question(s) • Develop your understanding of the literature in a field(s) of study • Synthesize results into a narrative summary of what is known and not known on your topic • Identify areas of controversy • Formulate questions for future research
This literature review explores the current state of knowledge concerning subject-specialist pedagogy, with particular reference to the Further Education (FE) and Skills sector in England.
A literature review presents an understanding, or a snapshot, of the overall state of the literature by surveying, summarizing, and synthesizing existing literature about the topic of interest. A well-constructed literature review identifies major themes associated with a topic,
In general, there are six main. steps: the search for the appropriate literature, the review of the references, identify. trends, debates, and gaps, and outline the framework. The systematic ...
Each chapter introduces you first to the general ideas or concepts that are important for the step in the literature review. It then explains the procedure and its purpose and outlines the ways to operationalize the step, that is, how you can translate it into conducting your literature review.
Whether it is for clinical or academic purposes (or your own innate curiosity!) it is important to understand what a literature review is before you start sourcing and immersing yourself in copious amounts of research and theoretical concepts. A lit-erature review is a synopsis of other research.
Writing a literature review requires a range of skills to gather, sort, evaluate and summarise peer-reviewed published data into a relevant and informative unbiased narrative. Digital access to research papers, academic texts, review articles, reference databases and public data sets are all sources of information that are available to enrich ...