1 literature review workshop-khalid
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This document outlines an agenda for a literature review workshop led by Prof. Dr. Khalid Mahmood. The workshop covers topics such as searching for print and online sources, evaluating sources, reading critically, analyzing and synthesizing findings, writing and presenting literature reviews, and avoiding plagiarism. Training methods include lectures, question/answer sessions, sharing experiences, and discussing participants' research projects. The document defines a literature review and explains its purposes such as defining problems, placing studies in context, avoiding duplication, and suggesting hypotheses. It also distinguishes between narrative, systematic and meta-analysis types of literature reviews.
1 literature review workshop-khalid
- 1. Literature Review Workshop Prof. Dr. Khalid Mahmood Department of Library and Information Science University of the Punjab Lahore, PAKISTAN 1
- 2. Workshop agenda Literature review – What and why Searching and finding print and online sources Evaluating sources for relevance and reliability Reading critically Analyzing and synthesizing findings Writing and presenting literature review Citing sources in text and reference list / bibliography Avoiding plagiarism 2
- 3. Training methods Lectures / presentations based on secondary information Question-answer / short assignments during lectures Sharing of trainer’s personal experiences Discussion on research projects of participants 3
- 4. Literature review - Definition A body of text that aims to review the critical points of current knowledge on a particular topic A comprehensive survey of publications in a specific field of study or related to a particular line of research Non-quantitative summary of existing published literature made by experts who select and weigh findings available from the literature A summary and interpretation of research findings reported in the literature A process and documentation of the current relevant research literature regarding a particular topic or subject of interest 4
- 5. Purposes of literature review Define and limit problem Develop familiarity with topic Limit research to a subtopic within larger body of knowledge Place study in historical perspective Analysis of way in which study relates to existing knowledge Avoid unintentional and unnecessary replication Awareness of prior studies so as to avoid unneeded replication Replication is reasonable if it is needed to verify prior results, investigate results that failed to be significant, or relate problem to a specific site 5
- 6. Purposes of literature review Select promising methods and measures Knowledge of and insight into specific research designs for investigating a problem Awareness of specific instruments, sampling procedures, and data analyses Relate findings to previous knowledge and suggest future research needs Relating prior research to what is known places current study in perspective This knowledge allows researcher to focus problem on what is not known Develop research hypotheses Suggestions for specific research hypotheses 6
- 7. Literature review designs Narrative review •Selective review of the literature that broadly covers a specific topic. •Does not follow strict systematic methods to locate and synthesize articles. Systematic review •Utilizes exacting search strategies to make certain that the maximum extent of relevant research has been considered. •Original articles are methodologically appraised and synthesized. Meta-analysis •Quantitatively combines the results of studies that are the result of a systematic literature review. •Capable of performing a statistical analysis of the pooled results of relevant studies. 7
- 8. When we need to do a literature review At the beginning of the research project Proposal Chapter 2, 1 & 3 Constantly update during the research When writing the discussion and conclusion chapters 8
- 9. What is literature Books Audio-visual material Journals CDs/DVDs Conference papers Electronic databases Theses and Government reports dissertations Magazines Bibliographies Newspapers Maps Grey literature Internet Interviews and other Indexes/Abstracts unpublished research 9
- 10. Three types of literature 10