REVIEW OF

RELATED
LITERATURE (ROL)
- Dr Ritu Tripathi Chakravarty
 WHAT IS THE BIG
QUESTION FOR A
RESEARCH???????
!!!!!!!!!

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 THE WORLD OF REVIEW
LOOKS LIKE THIS

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 • To define the term Review of Related
Literature
• To Understand the Purpose and Process
of Reviewing the Literature
OBJECTIVES • To acquire the skills of searching the most
OF THE appropriate reviews from the available
SESSION sources
• To enhance the skills of analysis for
writing reviews that would help to bridge
the gap of researches conducted in the
past and research to be taken up for the
future

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 • “and then it's like a whole new set of rooms opens on the side
of my brain, an entire wing of the house that was built before
I learned to read but was never lived in, these beautiful
furnished empty rooms I had no idea were there.”

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 Review of literature is a collective body of
works done by earlier scientists and
published in the form of books or in the
WHAT IS THE form of articles in journals or published as
LITERATURE monograph etc.
REVIEW
Every scientific investigation starts with a
Review of Literature.

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 DEFINITION

According to university of wincosin writing centre

“critical analysis of a segment of a published body of

knowledge through summary, classification, and comparison of
prior research studies, reviews of literature, and theoretical
articles”

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 Specific purpose : Selection of
Topic

Identifying variables relevant for

research
PURPOSE OF
REVIEW OF Avoidance of repetition
LITERATURE
Synthesis of prior works

Determining meaning and

relationship among variables

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 In addition to these specific purposes, there are some general
purposes of the literature review:

• To argue for the relevance and the significance of the research

question.
ADDITIONAL
REASONS • To provide the context for one’s own methodological approach

• To establish one’s own credibility as a knowledgeable and

capable researcher.

• To argue for the relevance and appropriateness of one’s own

approach

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 ROL : WHERE DOES IT LEAD
TO?

Review of Related Literature

Selection of Topic

Formulation of Hypothesis

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 DIAGRAM OF
THE REVIEW

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 SOURCES OF LITERATURE

PRIMARY SECONDARY TERTIARY

SOURCES SOURCE SOURCE

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 Journals and Books

Reviews

SOURCES Abstracts

OF THE Indexes
REVIEW OF
LITERATURE Internet

Doctoral Dissertations

Supervisors/Research Professors

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 Search & Choose
Select a topic the review
literature
STEPS OF
LITERATURE
REVIEW Analyse and
Interpret the Write the review
literature

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 Tell me what the research
says(Theory)

KEY POINTS
OF A Tell me how the research
was carried out
LITERATURE (Methodology)
REVIEW
Tell me what is missing or
the gap that research
intends to fill.(Research
gap

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 UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS
NEEDED

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 What
What was
was the
the
question
question of of the
the
research study?
research study?
What were
What were the the
cited
cited and
and
referenced
referenced
authors
authors trying
trying to
to
discover
discover or or
prove?
prove?

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 WRITING
PROCESS OF
THE REVIEW
OF
LITERATURE
: SCIENTIFIC
AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES

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 FORMAT / STYLE OF WRITING
REVIEWS
• Year
• Author(s) + Year
• Title
• APA Reference
• Type of Resource
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Location (Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Other)
• Purpose/Objectives
• Research Questions
• Survey/Interview/Focus Group Questions
• Sample
• Quantitative/Qualitative Design
• Main Findings
• Notes (where I put quotations I might want to use)

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 Reading

Abstracting
BASIC
SEARCH
STRATEGY Critiquing Articles

Indexing

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 A research Critique is an
analysis of the research
undertaking that focuses on its
strengths and limitations,
CRITIQUING
RESEARCH
Critiquing is a systematic
process for evaluating research
studies and the results reported

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 “The purpose of a Research
Critique is to determine
PURPOSE whether the findings are usable
for you”
OF
RESEARCH
CRITIQUING Brink & Wood , 2001,p.57

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 WHY DO A RESEARCH
CRITIQUE?

Results
Results may
may have
have little
little
Not
Not All
All Published
Published research
research support for their validity
support for their validity
is scientifically sound
is scientifically sound and
and may
may reflect
reflect aa bias
bias

Understand
Understand the
the purpose
purpose and
and
problem
problem while
while
determining
determining the
the design
design and
and Therefore
Therefore we
we need
need to
to
methodology
methodology of the purpose
of the purpose
and
and reflect
reflect on
on the
the quality
quality

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 ELEMENTS OF CRITIQUING
RESEARCH

Substantive & Methodological Ethical dimensions Interpretative Presentation/stylistic

theoretical dimensions dimensions dimensions dimensions

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 ABSTRACTING

An abbreviated and accurate representation of significant An abstract is a summary usually by a professional, other than
substance of a documentary unit the author, of essential contents of a work, usually an article in
a periodical together with the specification of its original”.
(Ranganathan)

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 Structured
Structured abstract:
abstract:
Description of
Description of published
published Un
Un structured
structured abstract:
abstract:
paper
paper InIn which
which thethe which
which diddid not
not gave
gave us
us the
the
information
information is is •• systematic
systematic heading.
heading. which gave us
which gave us
•• stylized
stylized •• broken
broken down
down the
the paragraph
paragraph ofof whole
whole
under
under the
the main
main heading
heading article.
article. Special
Special requirement
requirement
All
All these
these things
things gave
gave us
us for
for single publication.
single publication.
whole article information.

TYPES OF
whole article information.

ABSTRACT Descriptive
Descriptive abstract:
out
abstract: Point
Point
out the relationship among
the relationship among Critical
the Critical abstract:
abstract: This
This is
is aa
the topic.
topic. Considered
Considered critical evaluation of
working critical evaluation of
working andand write
write an
an Article.
abstract. Article. Compare
Compare with
with
abstract. As an abstract
As an abstract other
provide other work.
work. Critical
Critical
provide background
background abstract
information. abstract is
is a’
a’ condensed
condensed
information. UseUse critical
paragraph critical review
review
paragraph generously
generously toto
discuss
discuss the
the topic.
topic.

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 • An index consists of short indention of
information with an adequate
bibliographical citation
• Index help to locate the required
INDEXING information
• The index is only used for fact-finding
• An index is usually indicative
• An Index is not a real surrogate of the
document

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• Finally The flow of steps for reviewing the literature in Sciences
and Social Sciences

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 TEMPLATE OF REVIEW OF
RELATED LITERATURE

Introduction Cyberbullying: How Physical Intimidation Influences the Way People are Bullied
Main Body Faucher, Jackson, and Cassidy(2014) performed a study on 1925 students across four
Canadian universities that found 24.1 percent of students had been the victims of
cyberbullying over the last twelve months in the universities . These shocking numbers
show that nearly one in every four people have been the victims of this phenomenon.

Summary This evidence somewhat contradicts that of the other studies that state victims are
generally bullied at school and at home because it shows that nearly half of the bullies
prefer to bully people they don’t go to school with and possibly have do not know at all.
This continues to build and add to the idea of cyberbullying in that it allows bullies to
create their own personas and images in order to try and intimidate and influence others
without actually providing a physical intimidation factor.

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 LETS US LEARN TO WRITE

Author (year Title : A study of …..

Describe Study XYX 2020

(who, what, when, where

Purpose of the study Objectives

Findings As per objectives

Optional: Maybe sample , design , important new finding/s

Other interesting info

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