Lesson 8: The Process of Review of Related Literature

• Review of Related Literature - It should give a theoretical basis for the research and help you determine the nature of your own research.
• Process in Going Methodical for your Review of Related Literature

  Stage 1: Search for the Literature

  Stage 2: Reading the Source Material

  Stage 3: Writing the Review
• Process in Going Methodical for your Review of Related Literature

  Stage 1: Search for the Literature - This stage wherein you devote much of your time in looking for sources of knowledge, data, or information to answer your research questions or support your research topic.
• Process in Going Methodical for your Review of Related Literature

  Stage 2: Reading the Source Material

  • Think inferentially which means you have to predict, generalize, conclude and assume.
  • You should also evaluate, apply and create things about what you have read.
  • Reading your source material can help you modify, construct, or reconstruct ideas for your research based on what you have read.

   
• Process in Going Methodical for your Review of Related Literature

  Stage 3: Writing the Review - You do a great deal of idea connection and organization in this last stage to form an overall understanding of the material by summarizing it.
• Three Basic Types of Literature Sources

  1. General references
  2. Primary sources
  3. Secondary sources
• Three Basic Types of Literature Sources

  General references - This will direct you to the location of other sources.
• Three Basic Types of Literature Sources

  Primary Sources - This will directly report or present a person’s own experiences.
• Three Basic Types of Literature Sources

  Secondary sources - This will report or describe other people’s experiences or worldviews. (i.e. internet, books, articles in journals, and other library materials)
• Two methods to access these various sources of data

  1. Manually
  2. Electronically
• Dump or Stringing Method - This is the mere description, transfer, or listing of writer’s ideas that does not involve your own analytic inference.
• Good literature review writing - Shuns presenting ideas in serial abstracts which means every paragraph merely consists of one article. It fails to link, compare, and contrast series of article based on a theory or a theme around which the research questions revolve.
• Juxtaposing - Dealing with studies with respect to each other.