Virginia Curran
Instructional Design - Research & Information Fluency
Buffer-2.6.0. The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It. Printable PDF Version Fair-Use Policy What is a review of the literature? A literature review is an account of what has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and researchers. Occasionally you will be asked to write one as a separate assignment (sometimes in the form of an annotated bibliography—see the bottom of the next page), but more often it is part of the introduction to an essay, research report, or thesis. In writing the literature review, your purpose is to convey to your reader what knowledge and ideas have been established on a topic, and what their strengths and weaknesses are.
As a piece of writing, the literature review must be defined by a guiding concept (e.g., your research objective, the problem or issue you are discussing, or your argumentative thesis). It is not just a descriptive list of the material available, or a set of summaries Besides enlarging your knowledge about the topic, writing a literature review lets you gain and demonstrate skills in two areas. The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It. Literature Reviews. What this handout is about This handout will explain what literature reviews are and offer insights into the form and construction of literature reviews in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Introduction OK. You’ve got to write a literature review. You dust off a novel and a book of poetry, settle down in your chair, and get ready to issue a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” as you leaf through the pages. “Literature review” done. Wrong! What is a literature review, then? A literature review discusses published information in a particular subject area, and sometimes information in a particular subject area within a certain time period.
A literature review can be just a simple summary of the sources, but it usually has an organizational pattern and combines both summary and synthesis. But how is a literature review different from an academic research paper? Why do we write literature reviews? Literature reviews provide you with a handy guide to a particular topic. Let’s get to it! Draper. RIDec10Ebooks1. Information Literacy Test | Project SAILS | Information Literacy Assessment. Literature Reviews. The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It. Project Information Literacy: A large-scale study about early adults and their research habits.