RRL

• Purpose of RRL

  • To obtain background knowledge of your research
  • To relate your study to the current condition or situation of the world
  • To show the capacity of your research work to introduce new knowledge
  • To expand, prove, or disprove the findings of previous research studies
  • To increase your understanding of the underlying theories, principles, or concepts of your research
  • To explain technical terms involve in your research study
  • To highlight the significance of your work with the kind of evidence gathered to support the conclusion of your research
  • To avoid repeating research studies
  • To recommend the necessity of further research on a certain topic
• Traditional review of Literature

  Summarize present forms of knowledge on a specific subject.

  Aims to give a new understanding of an existing work.

  • It expects you to state your intentions in conducting the review and to name the sources of information.
• 1. Conceptual Review – Analysis of concepts or ideas to give meaning to some national or world issues. 2. Critical Review - focuses on theories or hypotheses and examines meanings and results of their application to situations.
• State-of-the-Art Review - makes the researcher deal with the latest research studies on the subject. Expert Review - encourages a well-known expert to do the RRL because of the influence of a certain ideology, paradigm, or belief on him.
• Systematic review of literature

  A style of review of related literature that involves sequential acts in a methodical manner
• Steps in a systematic review of literature

  1. Have a clear understanding of the research questions

  2. Plan the manner of obtaining the data

  3. Do the literature search

  4. Determine which data, studies, or sources of knowledge are valuable or not

  5. Determine the methodological soundness of the research studies

  6. Summarize what you have gathered from various sources of data
• Research questions

  Serve as the compass to direct your research activities, telling you what to collect and where to obtain those data
• Literature search

  Using keywords, look for the needed information from all sources of knowledge: Internet, books, journals periodicals, government publications, general references, and the like
• Determining valuable data, studies, or sources

  Using a certain standard to warrant the reasonableness of your decision to take some data and junk the rest
• Determining methodological soundness

  Use a checklist or a certain set of criteria in assessing the ways researchers conduct their studies to arrive at a certain conclusion
• Summarizing gathered information

  Concisely present a synthesis of your report, using a graph such as a table and other presentation formats that are not prone to verbosity
• Systematic review of literature

  • Rigorous way of obtaining data from written works
  • Bias-free style
  • Limits itself to peer-reviewed journals, academically written works, and quantitative assessment of data through statistical methods
  • Ensures objectivity in every stage of the research
• A systematic review of literature is a style that every researcher wanting to be a research expert should experience