LITERATURE REVIEW

Presented by:

1. Mohamed Huzaifah bin Mohamed Lasin 2019987445

2. Nur Izzati binti Noorrazlan 2019349359
3. Nor Asmah binti Hashim 2019949769
4. Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz 2019968909

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 SUB TOPICS

• What is A literature review?

• Sources of literature review
• Purposes of literature review
• Conducting A literature review

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 WHAT IS A LITERATURE REVIEW?

 An assessment of a body or bodies of literature that

pertains to a specific question

 Assists researchers to collect ideas of others interested in

a particular areas

 Provides a description, summary, and critical evaluation of

each work

 Gives future research context by telling the story of work

done so far
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 WHAT IS A LITERATURE REVIEW? Cont…

 Assist researchers in getting ideas regarding the areas for

research – called as ‘gaps’
 Literature review hence guide the researchers according to the
interests and situation
 Researchers need to locate other work dealing with the desired
study area, and
 To evaluate the relevancy to the research question of interest

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 SOURCES OF LITERATURE REVIEW

• Used to organize and locate primary & secondary

Tertiary sources.
• Systematically.
(General reference tools)
• Example: indexes and abstracts.

• Publications in which researches report the results of

their investigations (original reports).
Primary • Detail information about the research.
• Example: journal articles.

• Author describe the work of others (secondhand data).

Secondary • Quick overview.
• Example: textbooks.

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 PURPOSES OF A LITERATURE REVIEW?

 Understand the structure of the problem

 Identify important issues and link to hypotheses
 Identify key areas of missing knowledge
 Describe methodologies used
 Describe existing data sets
 Link proposed research to previous and ongoing research efforts

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CONDUCTING OF LITERATURE REVIEW

1. Planning
Define the research topic

2. Reading & research

Collect and read material.
Summarize sources
Select only relevant books and articles.

3. Analyzing 4. Drafting 5. Revising