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Chapter 2
Review Related Literature
Local Literature
Foreign Literature
Related Studies
A review of related literature is the process of collecting, selecting, and reading books,
journals, reports, abstracts, and other reference
While the research problem is still being conceptualized, the researcher must already
start reviewing literature. In identifying and defining the research problem, the researcher must
able to show evidences that the problem really exists and worth investigating.
it is important that the researcher knows what is already known about the problem or
what earlier researchers have found about it and what questions still need to be answered before
the research questions or objectives are finalized.
Theories which the researchers use to explain the existence of a research problem and
used as bases in analyzing relationships between variables can be generated from reference books
of theories or from related studies. The researcher therefore, must have already read adequate
literature at the start of the research activity.
1. Local Literature- are derived from our local news media or our own public
government sites.
2. Local Studies-this refers to the researches and other studies that are performed in
our own setting or country.
These four are essential when it comes to backing up your Research, especially when
only few have conducted the same topic you are pursuing. Providing enough or more
than enough related literature and studies will surely help prove a point and as to
why it is relevant and why would you’re study be continued.
Foreign Literature
Foreign Literature gives a foreign background, that are relevant to the people and is
shared from the people often refers to public news articles which also showed
necessary data to help determine and support the Research of yours.
Foreign Studies are those Researches that are made from the foreign background or
with compliance with their own environment as another type of society. It is also
made by foreign researchers that uses new form or methods to have the best results
of their own study in their own country.
Related Studies
Related literature and studies help the researcher understand his topic better
because it may clarify vague points about his problem. It also guides the researcher
in making comparisons between his findings with the findings of other similar studies.
So it is necessary that the related materials should have true value. I listed some
characteristics of related literature and studies for your guidelines.