Week 13

Writing Your Draft of Lit Review

What are the purposes of a literature review?

1. To demonstrate how much you have known about the

topic.
- What have been done/researched?
- What have not been done enough – less researched?
- What have been found?

2. To show that your proposed study needs to be done

- What is the gap in the literature?
Draft of Literature Review
Based on your synthesis, answer
these questions for each paragraph:
Section 1

• What areas have been focused on?

First • What were the similarities in terms of the results?
• What were the differences in terms of the results?
Paragraph • What made them different: subject, focus areas,
designs?
• What have been studied much?
• What have been studied less? → the gaps in the
literature
10-15 sentences
Section 2

2-3
• Discuss the research that have
Paragraphs similarities in terms of the results?
• What made them different: subject,
focus areas, designs?
Section 3

• Discuss the research that have differences in terms

2-3 of the results?
Paragraphs • What made them different: subject, focus areas,
designs?
Section 4

• Summary & conclusions:

• what have been studied much?
Last
• What have been studied less? → the gaps
Paragraph in the literature