18 OCTOBER 2014 – LITERATURE REVIEW

Literature review is a comprehensive review of the published and unpublished work from previous researchers in the area related to the problem at hand.

Before starting to write your literature, you should assume the likes of questions that will come from your audience soon after reading your literature. For example, ask yourself question like these before write your literature:

1.    What is the specific thesis, problem, or research question that may literature review helps to define?

2.    What type of literature review am I conducting?

3.    What is the scope of my literature review?

4.    Will the reader find my literature review relevant, appropriate, and useful?

Purpose of doing literature review:

1.    As a basis to support the development of current research.

2.    To enable researcher to understand and define the underlying problem precisely.

3.    To guide the researcher in selecting the variable for the study and provide the rationale for selecting these variables.

4.    To help researcher in developing theoretical framework for the study, research question and research hypothesis.

5.    To share with the reader the finding of the previous studies that relate closely to the current study.

Steps in conducting literature review:

1.    Identify the relevant sources for literature in the area of interest.

2.    Obtain and read all literatures which is relevant with the study.

Write up the literature based on the information obtained