Writing Literature Reviews
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The document discusses various aspects of conducting a literature review, including defining what a literature review is, different types of literature reviews, frameworks for organizing a literature review, developing a reading list and bibliography, writing the literature review, criteria for a good literature review, and common situations encountered when conducting a literature review. It provides guidance on locating relevant references, using references to support arguments, and avoiding misuse of references.
Writing Literature Reviews
- 1. Writing Literature Review Sanjaya Mishra
- 2. What is Literature Review?
- 3. What is Literature Review? It is a means of demonstrating an author's knowledge and understanding about a particular filed of study, including the vocabulary, theories, key variables and phenomenon, and its methods and history.
- 4. Types of Literature Reviews Systematic Review Narrative Reviews Conceptual Reviews Rapid Reviews Scoping Reviews Critical Reviews Expert Reviews State-of-the-art Reviews
- 5. Cooper's Taxonomy of Literature Review Charactrerestics Category Focus Research findings Research methods Theories Practices or applications Goal Integration Criticism Identification of central issues Perspectives Neutral Espousal of a position Coverage Exhaustive Exhaustive with selective citation Representative Central or pivotal Organization Historical Conceptual Methodological Audience Specialized scholars General scholars Practitioners or policy makers General public
- 6. How to Organize Your Literature Review? Historical Conceptual Methodological Historical Conceptual Methodological You can also take either author-centric or concept centric approach Identify key concepts Develop colour codes and tables
- 7. Developing the Reading List/Bibliography Find relevant references from subject encycolpaedias, year books, advances, and reviews Search indexes and abstracts Search library databases and online databases Use references cards or computer to store records; use codes for sorting Read and take notes; do reverse tracking of references Read original/primary sources
- 8. Writing the Literature Review Tone: constructively inform the readers; do not be over critical Tense: past or present? Thought: develop a theoretical underpinning; build constructs and give meaning to the writing by weaving a logical story
- 9. Criteria for a Good Literature Reviews Justify criteria for inclusion and exclusion Distinguish what has been done in the field from what needs to be done Placed the topic/problem in the broader scholarly context and in the historical context of its own Acquired and enhanced the subject vocabulary by articulating related variables and phenomenon Synthesized and developed a new perspective on the literature Identified the methodological issues, ideas and techniques related to the topic Rationalized the practical and scholarly significance of the study Written in a coherent and clear structure
- 10. Some Frequently Encountered Situations Nothing has been written in my research topic There is too much It's all been done How many references do I need? How much time will it take? What reference pattern should I follow?
- 11. Use and Abuse of References Use references to: Justify and support your argument Compare other researches Express matters better than you could have done Show your familiarity with the field of study Do not use references to: Impress your readers just for the sake Litter your writing with name and quotations Replace the need to provide your own thoughts Mis-represent the authors
- 12. ACTIVITY Use IGNOU's Library eResources such as the EBSCO, ProQuest, JSTOR, J-Gate, ACM Digital Library, Emerald Insight, SpringerLINK, Taylor and Francis, etc. to find at least 25 relevant literature related to your identified topic of research. Store the same using a Word processor, and add your codes and notes to future use.