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
What are the different Standards for doctoral literature reviews (Boote and Beile, 2005)
Category Criterion
Coverage: Justifies inclusion and exclusion of literature from the review
- Synthesis:
- Distinguishes what has been done in the field from what needs to be done
- Places the topic or problem in the broader scholarly literature
- Places the research in the historical context of the field
- Has a command of key terms and notions, discusses and resolves ambiguities in definitions
- Articulates important variables and phenomena relevant to the topic
- Synthesizes and gains a new perspective on the literature
- Methodology:
- identifies main methodologies and research techniques that have been used in the field, their advantages and disadvantages
- Relates ideas and theories in the field to research methodologies
- Significance
- Rationalizes the practical significance of the research problem
- Rationalizes the scholarly significance of the research problem
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- Rhetoric : Writing has a coherent, clear structure that supports the review
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