Review of Related Literature (RRL) discusses published information in a particular subject area, and

sometimes information in a particular subject area within a certain time period (Ramdhani, A.,
Ramdhani, M., & Amin, A., 2014). It is a survey of scholarly articles, books and other sources relevant to
a particular issue, area of research, or theory, and by so doing, providing a description, summary, and
critical evaluation of these works. (libguides.usc.edu, n.d.) It describes the content and quality of
knowledge already available, and readily presents the reader the significance of previous work (Okoli &
Schabram, 2010)

Traditional Review of Literature Ridley (2008) identified the styles or approaches of RRL to be applied in
conducting research study. The Traditional Review of Literature which summarize present forms of
knowledge on a specific subject and aims to 3 give a new understanding of an existing work. It expects
you to state your intentions in conducting the review and to name the sources of information and it
provides a concise summary of information and data findings that describe current knowledge and facts
that offers a rationale for conducting future researchers. (Ridley, 2008). An important area of a literature
review is an understanding of a gap. It is an important research question relevant to a given domain that
has not been answered adequately or at all in existing peer-reviewed scholarship. The gap will hopefully
ensure that the research will likely have valuable practical and theoretical implications. The Different
Types of Traditional Review

1. Conceptual Review – Analysis of concepts or ideas to give meaning to some national or world issues.
2. Critical Review – focuses on theories or hypotheses and examines meanings and results of their
application to situations.

3. State-of-the-Art Review – makes the researcher deal with the latest research studies on the subject.
4. Expert Review– encourages a well-known expert to do the RRL because of the influence of a certain
ideology, paradigm, or belief on him.

5. Scoping Review – prepares a situation for a future research work in the form of project making about
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