Review of Related

Literature
Lesson 8, Week 7
 At the end of the lesson, you are
Learning able to:
Objectives: present written review of related
literature.
 Review of related literature is a compilation of
studies related to a specific area of research.
 These are the three (3) ways of using literature
review in the discussion of your study:
Review of
 a) providing context as a foundation to develop
Related
your ideas,
Literature
 b) comparing your findings from other previous
related studies, and
 c) stating what contribution your study has made
in the field.
  1. To discover the connection of your research to the existing body of
knowledge and to the real-life situations.
 2. To identify more theories or concepts as the foundation of your
research study and learn from them.
 3. To determine the relationship of your research with previous research
studies to prevent duplication and to acknowledge other researchers.
 4. To acquire knowledge on the accuracy and significance of your
Purpose of a research questions.
Literature  5. To acquaint yourself with the technical terminologies relevant to your
Review study.
 6. To determine possible gaps, conflicts, and open questions left from
other researches
 which might help you in formulating and justifying your research ideas.
 7. To clarify misconceptions on previous researches and help refocus,
polish, and contribute to the development of the body of knowledge.
  You have learned that there are two basic methods of
reviewing related literature: traditional and systematic
review. Traditional is for qualitative research; systematic, for
quantitative research. Systematic review, ‘a question-driven
methodology’ is used by quantitative researchers who begin
RRL in their research work by asking questions—one big question
Quantitative that states the main problem of the research and a set of sub-
Research questions that deal with specific aspects of the research.
Qualitative research likewise begins with research questions,
but these are open-ended and subjective questions, in
contrast to quantitative questions that aim at obtaining exact,
specific, and objective answers whose origin or sources are
easy to trace. (Ridley 2012, p. 189; Jesson 2011)
  1. Clarifying the research questions
2. Planning the research based on your understanding of the
research questions
3. Searching for literature
Steps in 4. Listing criteria for considering the values of written works
5. Evaluating the quality of previous research studies
Conducting a 6. Summarizing the various forms of knowledge collected
Systematic Obtaining results of the review of related literature by means
Review of systematic review that takes place in a step-by-step method
is a scientific way of conducting a re-examination of reading
materials that have close connection with your research.
Adopting a systematic review of related literature
prevents you from being bias in dealing with the varied
form of literature.
 1.Books
Where can 2.Scholarly Journals
you find 3.Dissertations
related
literatures? 4.Government Documents
5.Policy Reports and Presented Papers
 1. Google Scholar
2. Sparrho
3. Microsoft Academic

ICT Tools as 4. Science Direct

Search 5. DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journal

engines in 6. IEEEXPLORE
Finding 7. Scopus
Related 8. Cite Seer
Literatures 9. Get CITED
10.SSRN
11.Deep Dyve
12.Biohunter
  1. Introduction
The introduction somehow presents the
fundamental idea of the particular study of the
literature review.
 2. Main Body
Structure of The main body consists of the organized
Literature discussion of sources. This is where you
Review summarize and synthesize your literature review
and reflect how they related to your study.
 3. Conclusions/Recommendations
Conclusion and recommendation emphasized
what you have learned from reviewing the
literature and where would your study leads to.
  For sample literature review, please visit
Sample
https://writingcenter.ashford.edu/sites/defa
Literature ult/files/inline-files/Sample%20Literature
Review %20Review_0.pdf
  The ethical way of literature writing tells you to
acknowledge the owners of borrowed ideas and put
quotation marks around copied words from books or
articles. Intentionally or negligently disregarding the use of
Ethical quotation marks around words copied exactly is not only
unethical but an indication of gross plagiarism as well.
Standards in
Literature-  Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work or ideas as
Review your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it
into your work without full acknowledgement.
Writing
 Proper citation and referencing is your way of freeing
yourself from plagiarism and of avoiding people from
casting doubts on your honesty and integrity as a
researcher. (Fraenbel 2012; Ransome 2011)
 1. In quoting, a part of an author’s words is repeated in
writing but the page number of copied text should be
written, ideas must be essential and quoted
Review: Three judiciously, meaning with full understanding.
Ways to
2. Summarizing is a shortened version of the original
Synthesize text expressed in your own language, picking only the
your RRL most important details of the text.
3. Paraphrasing on the other hand permits you to
explain the idea in your own words.
  Citation is a reference to a literature being used in
your study. It is a way of giving acknowledgement to
the authors whom you have referred their intellectual
works and creativity as a support or foundation of your
Review: In- research.
Text Citations
 An in-text citation is a reference made within the body
Style
of text in the paper. It leads the reader to a source
where a particular information has been taken of. An
in-text citation should be reflected when you refer,
paraphrase, summarize, or quote from another author.
 1. APA style (American Psychological
Association)
Review: In- 2. MLA style (Modern Language
Text Citations
Style Association)
3. Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)
Review: APA
In-Text
Citations
Style
Review: MLA
In-Text
Citations
Style
Review:
Chicago In-
Text Citations
Style
Comparison
Example
 References typically include only the sources
that you have mentioned or cited in-text in your
Review: paper, while a bibliography, is generally a list of
Referencing all the sources you used to generate your ideas
Style about your research even if you have not
mentioned or cited them in your paper.
Example of
Referencing
Styles
 1.Mendeley
2.Microsoft Word (References: In-
ICT
text citation)
Writing/Refer 3.Zotero
encing Tools:
4.Overleaf
5.Autherea
 1.Turnitin
ICT Plagiarism
Checking 2.Plag Scan
Tools
3.Grammarly
Thank you for listening and
participating!