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Literature
Review/Survey
Literature
Review/SurveyCritique of Articles
Synthesis of Issues
Referencing and Citation
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Literature SurveyIs the documentation of acomprehensive review of the
published and unpublished workfrom secondary sources of data inthe areas of specific interest to
the researcher.
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Why do you need to
review the literature To ensure that no important
variable that has in the past been
found repeatedly to have had animpact on the problem is ignored.
Helps the researcher to include all
the relevant variables in theresearch project.
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Why do you need to review
the literature (cont.) Facilitates the creative integration of
the information gathered from the
structured and unstructured interviewswith what is found in the previousstudies.
Provide the foundation for developing a
comprehensive theoretical frameworkfrom which hypotheses can be developedfor testing.
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Importance
To convince the reader that:
1. The researcher is knowledgeable aboutthe problem area
2. Has done preliminary homework that isnecessary to conduct the research
3. Theoretical framework will be structures
based on work already done and will addto the solid foundation of existingknowledge
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Characteristics of a
Good Literature Review1. Important variables are not left out
of the study
2. A clear idea as to what variableswould be most important toconsider, why is it important, how
they should investigate to solve theproblem ² helps to developtheoretical framework andhypothesis for testing.
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Characteristics of a Good
Literature Review (cont.)3. Problem statement can be made
with precision and clarity
4. Testability and replicability of thefindings of the current researchare advanced
5. Wasting efforts on trying torediscover something that isalready known will not happen
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Characteristics of a Good
Literature Review (cont.)6. The problem investigated is
perceived by the scientific
committee as relevant andsignificant
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How to conduct a
Literature Survey?3 steps:
1. Identifying the Relevant Sources
2. Extracting the RelevantInformation
3. Writing Up the Literature Review
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1. Identifying the Relevant
Sources3 forms of databases:
1. Bibliographic databases
- bibliographic citations, name ofthe author, title of article/book,source of publication, year, volume,
page numbers. Include periodicals,newspapers, books etc. Periodicallyupdated.
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1. Identifying the Relevant
Sources (cont.)3 forms of databases:
1. Bibliographic databases
- bibliographic citations, name ofthe author, title of article/book,source of publication, year, volume,
page numbers. Include periodicals,newspapers, books etc. Periodicallyupdated.
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1. Identifying the Relevant
Sources (cont.)2. Abstract databases
- Provide an abstract/summary of
articles3. full-text databases
- provide full text of articles
4. Statistics
- marketing, financial, directories.
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1. Identifying the Relevant
Sources (cont.)2. Abstract databases
- Provide an abstract/summary of
articles3. full-text databases
- provide full text of articles
4. Statistics
- marketing, financial, directories.
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1. Identifying the Relevant
Sources (cont.)Advantages:
Save enormous time
Focus on materials most central tothe research
Inexpensive
Examples of Online Databases.Refer page. 75-80
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2. Extracting the Relevant
Information Literature review: which
articles/books are relevant to study
Give an idea of which articles needto be looked for in depth, full textcan be printed out.
Reading the articles provide thedetail of the problems that isresearched, design details, findingscould be systematically formatted.
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3.Writing up the literature
review How to write?
- Bring together all relevant information
in a cogent and logical manner instead ofpresenting all the studies in chronologicalorder with bits and pieces ofuncoordinated information.
Able to formulate a good problemstatement if one has done a goodliterature review.