L8 | RRL/S

• LITERATURE REVIEW

  • Reviewing the major works regarding your narrow topic.
  • Capturing the major concepts of your topic and showing their relationships.
  • Process of evaluating what other researchers have written
• PURPOSE:

  1. Improves your understanding on your topic
  2. To update your readers
  3. Makes your study objective and empirical
• CHARACTERISTICS:

  1. Delimits the subject matter to be reviewed
  2. Covers all important relevant literature
  3. Up to date
  4. Provides an insightful analysis of the ideas and conclusions
  5. Points out similarities and differences, strengths and weaknesses
  6. Identifies gaps for future research
  7. Clarifies the context for which the literature is important
• TYPES OF READING

  1. ELEMENTARY READING
  2. SYSTEMATIC SKIMMING
  3. ANALYTIC READING
  4. COMPARATIVE READING
• ELEMENTARY READING

  • Merely recognizing the words and the literal comprehension of the sentences
• SYSTEMATIC SKIMMING

  • Articles are discerned if they can be included for analysis
• ANALYTIC READING

  • Article is examined and sentence is read word by word
• ANALYSIS

  • Process of breaking the whole into parts for better understanding
• COMPARATIVE READING

  • Concepts from various points of view of authors are compared and contrast
• CONDUCTING A REVIEW OF LITERATURE

  1. Looking for relevant materials (use systematic skimming)
  2. Actual reading (use analytic and comparative reading)
  3. Note taking
• TOOLS FOR READING AND REVIEW

  1. Highlighting
  2. Annotations