Getting-acquainted-with-the-literature-review

Getting-acquainted-with-the-literature-review

    In the article “How to Write a LiteratureReviews (UCSC)” by Literature review summarizes research papers relevant to a particular issue and overviews significant information published on a topic.  

  There are four stages of development of the literature review. First of all we should formulate the problem and to identify the component issues. Next step is finding resources and information about the subject you explore. Then we evaluate the information we have to make a hierarchy of significance for better understanding. And the last step is analysis and discussion of the review.

  Also literature review includes a short summary of the topic and its issues and splitting into categories, explanation the differences between the works for better contribution to the understanding and development of the research. Special attention should be paid to the provenance (authenticate of the information given by the author), objectivity of author's data, persuasiveness of the research and value of the author’s work. 
The purposes of the literature review are:

1.       Assess the contribution of the work to the understanding of the research

2.       Define the relationship between reviewed works 

3.       Find new ways to interpret and clear up the inaccuracy of previous studies

4.       The resolution of the inconsistency between previous studies

5.       Evaluate priority areas of research

6.       Define the way of the further research

7.       Assess the literary contribution of the work

  In conclusion the author of the article summed it up that the literature review is not an independent work.