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Literature Review Assignment A literature review is a descriptive summary of research on a topic that has previously been studied

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Literature Review Assignment

A literature review is a descriptive summary of research on a topic that has previously been studied. The purpose of a literature review is to inform readers of the significant knowledge and ideas that have been established on a topic. Its purpose is to compare, contrast and/or connect findings that were identified when reviewing researchers' work. Oftentimes, literature reviews are written to ground a study in a particular context of what is known about a subject in order to establish a foundation for the topic (or question) being researched.

 

About what?

 

I suggest to talk about sustainability, it is a very important topic nowadays, yet you may choose any topic you like.

 

Assignment Description:

You are required to draft a literature review of (2000 words) and document your findings with proper citation and referencing.

 

How to do it?

Writing a literature review is related to appropriate publications (covering books and journal articles), critically analyzing them, and reporting the findings. To draft your literature review document, follow these steps:

 

 

1.            Go to the library to search for and locate journals. Search for relevant literature (at least 5 articles at academic journals)

2.            Find articles, read the abstracts and skim the articles to determine if they correspond well to your topic AND inquiry question.

3.            Evaluate sources (concerning: recency, availability of empirical study, deployed in an emerging market) 

4.            Read your articles and begin to sort and classify them according to their findings. Identify themes and debates

5.            Identify Gaps (look for future research areas)

6.            Outline the structure

7.            Write your literature review

8.            Define your research problem & research questions

9.            Compile your reference list

 

 If you have more inquiries, visit this links:

?             How To Write A Literature Review - A Step By Step Guide (myperfectwords.com)

?             How to Define a Research Problem | Ideas and Examples (scribbr.com)

 

 

Outline for writing your small-scale literature review

1.      Introduction

The introduction is used to establish the context of your review to the reader. To establish the context, it is important to do the following in this opening paragraph:

a.       Define the topic of your study and provide any background information that helps your reader to understand the topic.

b.      Explain your reason (perspective) for reviewing the literature on this topic.

c.       State your inquiry question for this review.

 

2.      Body

This section of your paper begins with an explanation of how you have organized your small-scale literature review and describes findings from articles that provide answers to your inquiry question. Before you begin this section, be sure that you have sorted your articles into different themes based on the articles' findings (sometimes called results). After you sort your articles, it is important to give your sorted groups a descriptive name. The names of the sorted articles will become your headings for each of the paragraphs that you write in the body of your review. To write the body of your small-scale literature review, it is important to include the following:

a.       Write an introduction paragraph for the body of your review. This

paragraph tells the reader specific information on how many articles you reviewed and how you sorted the articles into common themes based on the findings (results).

b.      This will be a paragraph that describes the first theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you've selected.

c.       This will be a paragraph that describes the second theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you've selected.

d.      This will be a paragraph that describes the third theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you've selected.

 3.      Summary

This is the last paragraph of your small-scale literature review. In this paragraph, it is important to summarize the main findings from the articles that you reviewed and to point out the information that you found particularly important to know that answered the inquiry question that you established in the first paragraph of your review. Try to conclude your paper by connecting your inquiry question back to the context of the general topic of study.

Identify the research problems and research questions

 4.      References

This is the last page of your review. It serves as a listing of all references that you mentioned in your paper.