Literature Review
- Research Writing
- Literature Review
- What is a Literature Review?
- What are the different (Three) Phases of Literature Review?
- What are the different steps and strategies followed while writing a Literature review?
- Moves in the Literature review (Structure) – Schematic Structure
- What are the different Standards for doctoral literature reviews (Boote and Beile, 2005)
- How to Read, Summarize, and critique previous studies (Seliger and Shohamy, 1989)
- A Checklist to ensure as to whether a piece of writing is academic or not
- Important factors to consider when evaluating a reference for an academic article / dissertation
- How to organize your literature review and the critics from examiners for your literature review
Moves in the Literature review (Structure) – Schematic Structure
- Move 1: Establishing a Thematic Territory
- Making topic generalization (current state of the art of knowledge or practice)
- Claiming centrality
- Giving background information
Move 2: Surveying and Summarizing Previous research
- Constructing reference to the published work
- Making positive and/or negative evaluation
- Making summary statements
- Move 3: Creating a research niche (preparing for present research)
- Counter Claiming
- Gap indicating
Some Sample Passage for Gap indicating elements
“Further research is needed in order to determine whether and how voice plays a role in academic writing”.
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- Asserting the relevancy
- Establishing or synthesizing a theoretical Position or framework
- Move 4: Occupying the research niche
- Announcing the aims or research questions
“with respect to… the study aimed to address the following research questions: 1”
- Announcing theoretical framework or positions
- Indicating RA structure
- Announcing the adoption of terminology definitions
- Indicating possible findings
- Announcing research design or process
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