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This guide provides an introduction to the conduct and organization of a literature

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1. Introduction 2. Why Do a Literature Review? 3. Methods for Searching the Literature

4. Analysing the Literature 5. Organizing the Literature Review 6. Writing the Review

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1. About This Guide
This guide provides an introduction to
the literature review process:
1. Introduction
1. About This Guide | 2. What is the
Literature? | 3. What is a Literature
Review? | 4. What a Literature Review
is Not! | 5. Literature Reviews: An
Overview for Graduate Students
2. Why Do a Literature Review?
1. Reasons for Doing a Literature
Review | 2. Purposes of a Literature
Review | 3. Components of a Literature
Review
3. Methods for Searching the
Literature
1. Tasks Involved in a Literature
Review | 2. Skills Required for
Conducting a Literature Search | 3.
Searching Techniques | 4. Sorting the
Literature | 5. Notetaking | 6. Questions
to Keep in Mind
4. Analysing the Literature 1.
Recording the Literature | 2. The
Evolving Literature Review | 3.
Questions to Ask
5. Organizing the Review
1. Organizing Principles | 2. Structure
of the Literature Review | 3. Tips on
Structure | 4. Selected Online
Resources | 5. A Final Checklist
6. Writing the Review
1. Writing the Literature Review Part 1:
Step-by-Step Tutorial for Graduate
Students | 2. Writing the Literature
Review Part 2: Step-by-Step Tutorial
for Graduate Students | 3. Tips for
Effective Literature Reviews | 4.
Literature Review Samples | 5.
Resources @ UWISA Libraries
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3. What is a Literature Review? Acknowledgement
Definitions
"The selection of available documents (both Lynda Quamina- Aiyejina,
published and unpublished) on the topic, which former Senior Librarian
contain information, ideas, data and evidence Indexer/Documentalist at
written from a particular standpoint to fulfil certain CERIS, School of
aims or express certain views on the nature of the Education, The University
topic and how it is to be investigated, and the of the West Indies, is
effective evaluation of these documents in relation responsible for developing
to the research being proposed." (Hart, 1998, p. this guide.
13)
"A literature review uses as its database reports of Research Guide by Lynda
primary or original scholarlship and does not report Quamina - Aiyejina
new primary scholarship itself.... Second, a
literature review seeks to describe, summarize,
evaluate, clarify and/or interrogate the content of
primary reports." (Cooper, 1998, p. 7)
"A literature review is a written document that
presents a logically argued case founded on a
comprehensive understanding of the current state
of knowledge about a topic of study. This case
establishes a convincing thesis to answer a study's
question." (Machi & McEvoy, 2009, p. 4)
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Acknowledgement
Sincere thanks to
Jennifer Warburton of
the University of
Melbourne for
permission to draw on
some of the content of
her Guide.
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2. What is the "Literature"?
The works you consult in order to
identify the ideas and knowledge that
have been established on your topic:
Journal articles are the most common
sources of materials for literature
reviews. They provide:
concise and up-to-date
information
some guarantee of the quality
of the work they publish
Books are usually less up-to-date than
journal articles. They are:
useful for providing overall
summaries of the state of
knowledge in an area
a starting point for finding more
detailed information sources
Conference proceedings may contain
research not yet published in journals.
Reports of government and
international agencies
Theses and dissertations can be
valuable sources of original research
Newspapers and magazines may
inlcude news stories on research that
you can follow up to find more detail
Web pages/documents on the
Internet
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4. What a Literature Review is Not!
It is not an annotated bibliography!
An annotated bibliography "is a list of citations to
books, articles, and documents. Each citation is
followed by a brief (usually about 150 words)
descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the
annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to
inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and
quality of the sources cited." Definition from Cornell
University Library, available at
http://guides.library.cornell.edu
/annotatedbibliography
Major Differences
Literature Review
Written in essay style and organized around
a central idea or thesis
A single source may be referred to
numerous times depending on its
importance in the field or its relationship to
other sources
Annotated Bibliography
An alphabetical list of sources accompanied
by summaries
A single source appears just once
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