St.

Paul College of Ilocos Sur

(Member: St. Paul University System)
St. Paul Avenue, 2727 Bantay, Ilocos Sur

DEPARTMENT OF NURSING

Name: Marie Kelsey A. Macaraig___Instructor: Melanio P. Rojas Jr MAN Score: ____________

Section/Year Level: ___BSN-III________ Date: ____05/05/22_______________________

Reviewing the literature

I. Introduction

  “A substantive, thorough, sophisticated literature review is a precondition

for doing substantive, thorough, sophisticated research”. Boote and Baile

2005. Reviewing of literature provides foundation of knowledge that makes

sophisticated research. In this article it discusses about the different

approaches and stages in reviewing a literature. The approaches includes

formulating clear inclusion and exclusion criteria, justifying data bases and

year searched, developing search terms, and developing search skills.

Whereas the stages background, aims and objective, review design and

methods, findings, discussion, and conclusion.

II. Possible Issues

As a student, It is not easy to write a Literature Review. It necessitates

meticulous planning, organizing, and criticizing of information from different

sources that is related to the topic. Some students like does not know to rely

on credible sources such as broad collection of non-academic sources like

blog posts, opinion pieces, publications by advocacy groups and daily news

articles. Another is adding irrelevant or unfocused content in the review of

literature. Moreover, plagiarism and poor referencing is one of the major

 issues in reviewing literature. Lastly, There is a lack of awareness and

appreciation of the methods needed to ensure systematic reviews are as free

from bias and as reliable as possible.

III. Conclusion

The article highlights about the different approaches and stages in

reviewing a literature. The approaches includes formulating clear inclusion

and exclusion criteria, justifying data bases and year searched, developing

search terms, and developing search skills. Whereas the stages background,

aims and objective, review design and methods, findings, discussion, and

conclusion. There are issues involving literature review, not relying on

credible sources, adding information that is irrelevant and inconsistent to the

topic, and plagiarisms and poor referencing. To address the issues raised, we

should just do as the article instructs. By putting the various methodologies

and stages of literature evaluation into practice.

IV. Solutions

The so-called "literary review" is more than just reading, organizing, and

then writing. It's not really a "review" in the typical sense. It's a process of

critical analysis, categorization, and synthesis. Also, writing can assist. Then

comes the text construction. To solve the issues stated, simply we should just

follow what the article is telling us. By practicing the different approaches and

stages in reviewing the literature.