4. WHY DO A REVIEW
OF RESEARCH?
When you
integrate
To provide the
various recent You realise
research if there are
reader with a
articles into a
mosaic of what plausible
meaningful
is happening answers to
picture, you
concerning a your
can discover a
given topic
number of questions.
interesting
things
5. WHY DO A REVIEW?
Although you may
find conflicting
result in the There are also
research others
have conducted, you differences in
might realise that procedures and
the different materials used in
samples used in the research.
studies conduct to
different results.
6. WHY DO A REVIEW?
When you review
With this, you realise if
literature, it will give
your proposed study is
you an overview of the
different kinds of even feasible
methodologies,
instruments for given your time,
collecting data, materials,
and ways in which to
and financial
analyse data commonly
used in the research for constraints.
a given area.
8. FOUR ANALYSIS TASKS OF
THE LITERATURE REVIEW
PROCESS OF
LITERATURE
REVIEW
SYNTHESISE SUMMARY CRITIQUE COMPARE
9. SAMPLE LANGUAGE
Normadin (2001) has demonstrated…
Early work by Hausman, Schwarz, and
Graves (1998) was concerned with…
Elsayed and Stern (2000) compared …
Additional work by Karasawa et. al, Azadivar,
and Parry et. al (2010) deals with…
10. EXAMPLE: SUMMARY
AND SYNTHESIS
Piaget’s theory of stages of cognitive development and
Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development are
commonly used for educational psychology courses
(Borich Tombari, 1997; LeFrancois, 1997; Slavin,
1997). Piaget described characteristic behaviors,
including artistic ones such as drawing, as evidence of
how children think and what children do as they
progress beyond developmental milestones into and
through stages of development.
11. COMPARISON AND
CRITIQUE
Evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the
work:
How do the different studies relate? What is new, different, or
controversial?
What views need further testing?
What evidence is lacking, inconclusive, contradicting, or too
limited?
What research designs or methods seem unsatisfactory?
12. SAMPLE LANGUAGE
These general results, reflecting the
stochastic nature of the flow of goods,
are similar to those reported by
Rosenblatt and Roll…
13. EXAMPLE:
The situationist model has also received
its share of criticism. One of the most
frequently cited shortcomings of this
approach centres around the assumption
that individuals enter into the work
context tabula rasa.
14. BESIDES ENLARGING YOUR KNOWLEDGE
ABOUT A TOPIC, WRITING A LITERATURE
REVIEW LETS YOU GAIN AND
DEMONSTRATE SKILLS IN TWO AREAS:
Information seeking: The ability to scan the literature
efficiently, using manual or computerised methods, to
identify a set of useful articles and books.
Critical appraisal: The ability to apply principles of
analysis to identify unbiased and valid studies.
15. A LITERATURE
REVIEW MUST:
Be organised around and related directly to the
thesis or research question you are developing.
Synthesise results into a summary of what is
and is not known.
Identify areas of controversy in the literature.
16. WHAT ARE THE PARTS OF
A LITERATURE REVIEW?
Introduction
Body paragraphs
Conclusion
