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Practical
Research 2
Quarter 1 – Module 8:
REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE
Subject Area – Grade Level
Self-Learning Module (SLM)
Quarter 1 – Module 8: Review of Related Literature
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Practical
Research 2
Quarter 1 – Module 8:

REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Practical Research 2 for Grade 12 Self-Learning Module (SLM) on

Review of Related Literature!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators both
from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in helping
the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming
their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help
learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their
needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of
the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module.
You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage
their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you master
the Review of Related Literature.

The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different learning situations.
The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students. The lessons
are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the order in which
you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you are now using.
The module is composed of one lesson only:
• Lesson 1 – Review of Related Literature

After going through this module, you are expected to:

a. enumerate ways in writing properly the review of related literature;
and
b. make related literature from the given terms.

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 What I Know

Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if otherwise. Write
your answers on the space provided before each number.

________________1. Related Literature is composed of opinions to which the present

study is related.

________________2. Literature is an oral or written record of man's significant

experiences that are artistically conveyed in a straightforward
manner.

________________3. Review of Related Literature is a man's written or spoken

knowledge of the world.

________________4. Related Literature helps the reader in searching for or selecting

a better research problem or topic.

________________5. Review of Related Literature (RRL) helps the researcher

understands his/her topic or research better.

________________6. RRL ensures that there will be a duplication of other studies.

________________7. RRL provides the conceptual or theoretical framework of the

unplanned research.

________________8. RRL gives the researcher a feeling of belongingness.

________________9. RRL provides information about research methods used.

_______________10. RRL provides findings and conclusions of present investigation.

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 Lesson
REVIEW OF RELATED
8 LITERATURE

What’s In

Directions: Based on your learnings from the previous topic discussed, describe the
term “hypothesis”.

HYPOTHESIS

Notes to the Teacher

Should you have queries on the tasks, always ask or
communicate your subject teacher.

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 What’s New

Directions: Based on the caricature presented below, construct at least five

sentences. Write your sentences on the blanks provided.

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 What is It

How to select relevant literature in quantitative research?

Carrying out a comprehensive literature review is an important skill. It’s a
major part of writing a research paper. Even though your literature review could
probably be a section in your research paper, it should still include the format of
a formal piece of writing.
A literature review may consist of simply a summary of key sources, but
in the social sciences, a literature review usually has an organizational pattern
and combines both summary and synthesis, often within specific conceptual
categories.
The analytical features of a literature review are:
• Give a new interpretation of old material or combine new with old
interpretations;
• Trace the intellectual progression of the field, including major debates;
and
• Depending on the situation, evaluate the sources and advise the reader
on the most pertinent or relevant research (Baraceros, 2016).

When writing your review, keep in mind these issues.

Use Evidence
A literature review section is, in this sense, just like any other academic research
paper. Your interpretation of the available sources must be backed up with
evidence [citations] that demonstrates that what you are saying is valid.
Be Selective
Select only the most important points in each source to highlight in the review.
The type of information you choose to mention should relate directly to the
research problem, whether it is thematic, methodological, or chronological.
Related items that provide additional information but that are not key to
understanding the research problem can be included in a list of further
readings.
Use Quotes Sparingly
Some short quotes are okay if you want to emphasize a point, or if what an
author stated cannot be easily paraphrased. Sometimes you may need to quote
certain terminology that was coined by the author, not common knowledge, or
taken directly from the study. Do not use extensive quotes as a substitute for
your own summary and interpretation of the literature.

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Summarize and Synthesize
Remember to summarize and synthesize your sources within each
thematic paragraph as well as throughout the review. Recapitulate
important features of a research study, but then synthesize it by
rephrasing the study's significance and relating it to your own work.

Keep Your Own Voice

While the literature review presents others' ideas, your voice [the writer's]
should remain front and center. For example, weave references to other
sources into what you are writing but maintain your own voice by starting
and ending the paragraph with your own ideas and wording.

Use Caution When Paraphrasing

When paraphrasing a source that is not your own, be sure to represent
the author's information or opinions accurately and in your own words.
Even when paraphrasing an author’s work, you still must provide a
citation to that work (Baumeister & Leary, 2013).

You might say something like this:

Research indicates that there are a number of approaches to assessing canine
aggression. According to Reisner, Shofer, and Nance (2007) studies shows that dog aggression
towards children used retrospective review of aggressive incidents reported to a veterinary clinic,
and included a systematic categorization of the types and circumstances of the incidents.
Moreover, a study specifically focusing on comparing variation in aggression across
several different breeds employed a standardized survey measure of general aggressive
behaviors, which is based on owner report of canine aggression (Duffy, Hsu & Serpel, 2008).
In addition, Another study reported the use of a standardized assessment of very specific
aggressive behavior (food guarding), using an assessment method that can be used by either
owners or professionals (Mohan-Gibbons, Weiss & Slater, 2012). All the methods yielded valid
results as noted by each study, but the standardized measures appeared to be more efficient and
easier to use with non-professionals.

Source: Alice Frye, Ph.D, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Ethical standards in writing related literature

Nowadays, with the advent of modern technology causing the emergence

of varied electronic communication devices and online sources of information,
collecting data happens easily and speedily.
Through computer technology with its powerful internet, you become
exposed to extensive amount of knowledge that is easy to lure you in into
practicing the copy-and-paste technique of obtaining ideas for your research
paper. Unmindful of prestigious ways of working academically, there is a danger
that you may fall into this dishonest way of reviewing and related literature.
The ethical way of literature tells you to acknowledge the owners of
borrowed ideas and put quotation marks around copied words from books or
articles. Intentionally or negligently disregarding the use of quotation marks
around words copied exactly is not only unethical but an indication of gross
plagiarism as well. You must be aware the fact that with the surfacing of online
sources of information, software to detect plagiarism from online source has
likewise become available in academic institutions. Proper citations and
referencing is your way of freeing yourself from plagiarism and of avoiding people
from casting doubts on your honesty and integrity as a researcher (Baraceros,
2016).

What is the difference between a literature review and a review

of studies?
LITERATURE REVIEW
• A literature review, straight
up, is a review of “all”
published science relevant to
the topic. Often the purpose
is to assess the current state
of the research, and identify
gaps in understanding
and/or suggest future
avenues of exploration,
rather than to present new
research of one’s own.
• A literature review will, by
definition, include theoretical
papers and pieces as well as
papers that cover field
observations, and papers
that cover laboratory
simulations or experiments.
Some papers will include
more than one category - for
instance, a comparison of
how the predictions of a
specific theoretical model
developed by the group line
up with field observations by
the same group(Krelove, 2019).
REVIEW OF STUDIES
• A “review of studies” is done to
compare and sometimes
collate the results of a set of
substantially similar
controlled/laboratory
simulations/experiments that
were done on the same topic,
by different research groups,
at different ties.
• This can be valuable if a
number of conflicting study
results have been published
over a lengthy time-frame - for
instance, on the correlation
between alcohol consumption
and heart disease, or the
correlation between BMI and
morbidity - because it allows
you to consider what
differences in their
experimental methodology,
execution, or analysis might
have contributed to the
contradictory results (Krelove,
2019).

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 Ten Simple Rules for Writing a Literature Review

Pautasso (2013) emphasized that reviewing the literature requires

the ability to juggle multiple tasks, from finding and evaluating relevant
material to synthesizing information from various sources, from critical
thinking to paraphrasing, evaluating, and citation skills. He proposed the
following rules in writing review related literature:

Rule 1: Define a Topic and Audience

The topic must at least be:
a. interesting to you (ideally, you should have come across a series of
recent papers related to your line of work that call for a critical
summary);
b. an important aspect of the field (so that many readers will be
interested in the review and there will be enough material to write
it), and
c. a well-defined issue (otherwise you could potentially include
thousands of publications, which would make the review
unhelpful).
Rule 2: Search and Re-search the Literature
After having chosen your topic and audience, start by checking the
literature and downloading relevant papers.

Rule 3: Take Notes While Reading

If you read the papers first, and only afterwards start writing the
review, you will need a very good memory to remember who wrote what,
and what your impressions and associations were while reading each
single paper

Rule 4: Choose the Type of Review You Wish to Write

After having taken notes while reading the literature, you will have
a rough idea of the amount of material available for the review.

Rule 5: Keep the Review Focused, but Make It of Broad Interest

Whether your plan is to write a mini- or a full review, it is a good advice to
keep it focused. Including material just for the sake of it can easily lead to
reviews that are trying to do too many things at once.

Rule 6: Be Critical and Consistent

Reviewing the literature is not stamp collecting. A good review does
not just summarize the literature, but discusses it critically, identifies
methodological problems, and points out research gaps.

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Rule 7: Find a Logical Structure
Like a well-baked cake, a good review has a number of telling
features: it is worth the reader's time, timely, systematic, well written,
focused, and critical. It also needs a good structure. With reviews, the
usual subdivision of research papers into introduction, methods, results,
and discussion does not work or is rarely used. However, a general
introduction of the context and, toward the end, a recapitulation of the
main points covered and take-home messages make sense also in the case
of reviews.

Rule 8: Make Use of Feedback

Reviews of the literature are normally peer-reviewed in the same
way as research papers, and rightly so. As a rule, incorporating feedback
from reviewers greatly helps improve a review draft. Having read the
review with a fresh mind, reviewers may spot inaccuracies,
inconsistencies, and ambiguities that had not been noticed by the writers
due to rereading the typescript too many times.

Rule 9: Include Your Own Relevant Research, but Be Objective

In many cases, reviewers of the literature will have published
studies relevant to the review they are writing. This could create a conflict
of interest: how can reviewers report objectively on their own work? Some
scientists may be overly enthusiastic about what they have published,
and thus risk giving too much importance to their own findings in the
review. However, bias could also occur in the other direction: some
scientists may be unduly dismissive of their own achievements, so that
they will tend to downplay their contribution (if any) to a field when
reviewing it.

Rule 10: Be Up-to-Date, but Do Not Forget Older Studies

Given the progressive acceleration in the publication of scientific
papers, today's reviews of the literature need awareness not just of the
overall direction and achievements of a field of inquiry, but also of the
latest studies, so as not to become out-of-date before they have been
published. Ideally, a literature review should not identify as a major
research gap an issue that has just been addressed in a series of papers
in press (the same applies, of course, to older, overlooked studies

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 What’s More

Directions: Answer what is asked.

1. What are the analytical features of literature review?

2. What are the ten simple rules in writing literature? Explain each rule in
your own words.

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 What I Have Learned

A. Directions: State and explain the ethical standards in writing a review of

related literature. Write your answers on the space provided below.
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B. Directions: In your own words, differentiate related literature and review

studies. Write your answers on the space provided,

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Criteria:

Content/idea- 10 points
Grammar/Spelling- 5 points
TOTAL- 15 points each item

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 What I Can Do

Directions: Present a sample Review of Related Literature (RRL) of the underlined

words on the given research title below.

“Learning Styles and Academic Performance of Grade 12 HUMSS

Students”

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Criteria: Appropriateness of info.- 10 points
Paraphrasing- 10 points
Correctness of In-text citation- 10 points
TOTAL- 30 points

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 Assessment

Directions: Write TRUE if the given statement is correct and FALSE if otherwise.
Write your answers on the space provided before each number. Explain
why you opt to answer true or false.

_________1. The ethical way of literature tells you to acknowledge the owners of
borrowed ideas and put quotation marks around copied words from
books or articles.

Explanation:_____________________________________________________________________
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_________2. After you have chosen your topic and audience, start by checking the
literature and by downloading irrelevant papers.

Explanation:_____________________________________________________________________
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__________3. The related items that provide additional information, which are not
essential in understanding the research problem can be included in the
list of further readings.

Explanation:_____________________________________________________________________
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__________4. Select only the least important points in each source to be highlighted
in the review.

Explanation:_____________________________________________________________________
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__________5. Reviewing the literature is not just like collecting a stamp.

Explanation:_____________________________________________________________________
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 Additional Activities

Directions: In a brief reflective essay, express how much you have understood the
concepts about RRL or Review of Related Literature in quantitative
research. Specify which ideas sank into your mind or came to your
understanding excellently, moderately, slightly, poorly, or emptily.

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