CONTENT OF THE REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE
1. Introduction
- explains the focus and establishes the
importance of the subject
-discusses what kind of work has been
done on the topic
- identifies any controversies within the
field or any recent research which has
raised questions about earlier
assumptions
2. Body
- summarize, evaluate and assess the field
of knowledge under study in current
stage
- gives reports and findings on themes,
issues, topics, trends for researchers
3. Conclusion
-gives the summary of all the evidences
that are being presented from
introduction to the body of related
literature
- consists of one paragraph only
summarizing the main points of all the
research findings from abstracts
4. Synthesis
- presents the relationship of the present
study to the investigation being reviewed
- summarizes and emphasizes its relevance
to the current study
 Ethical standard in research
- following the right procedure/ protocol in
conducting research.
Some points to consider the ethical standard
in writing RRL:
1.Understand the Intellectual Property
(IP)
2.To understand the ethical use of
information
Primary Sources: artifacts, autobiographies,
court records, diaries, Emails, speeches,
letters interviews, letters, official reports,
drawings, maps, photographs, speeches
Secondary Sources: biographies, critical
studies of an author's work, dictionaries,
journal articles, handbooks, magazines,
newspapers, reports, textbooks, etc.
Local studies- if the inquiry was conducted
in the Philippines
Foreign / International- if they are
conducted in foreign lands
ORGANIZING RELATED LITERATURE AND
STUDIES THROUGH:
1. Chronological Order
- easiest way in organizing coherent
literature reviews and studies
-changes topic according to year or time the
material is written or published
(Cronin, Ryan & Coughlan, 2008; Calderon &
Gonzales, 2015)
2. Broad-to-specific topic

-start from general issue to specific issue in

the literature until it reaches and links to
your study

(Cronin, Ryan& Coughlan, 2008)

3. Major models or major theories

- arrange significant theories according to

their importance in your research

4. Prominent authors

- organize literature and studies according

to the writers' popularity

(Cronin, Ryan& Coughlan, 2008)

2. Contrasting schools of thought

- group together major arguments or

contrasting differences that came up in your
research with researchers stressing their
agreement and disagreement in their
approaches and ideas

(Cronin, Ryan& Coughlan, 2008)

3. Thematic concept

-organize concepts and topic and present

literature and studies in topical form
irrespective of whether they are of local or
foreign source, and not necessarily in
chronological order