2. Outline
● Introduction
● What is a literature review?
● Getting skills two areas
● A literature review do four things
● Conclusion
3. Introduction
● This is Thesis Writing class exercise on
week7. This exercise is training for my
thesis presentation.
4. What is a literature review?
● A literature review is an account of
publishing on a topic by accredited
scholars and researchers.
● Purpose of writing literature review is
communicating knowledge and ideas
have been established on a topic.
5. Getting skills two areas
Writing a literature review is not only
enlarging your knowledge but also gaining
and demonstrating skills two areas:
1. Information seeking
2. Critical appraisal
6. A literature review do four things
A literature review must do four things:
1. Be organized around and related
directly to the thesis or research
question you are developing.
2. Synthesize results into a summary of
what is and is not known.
7. A literature review do four things
3. Identify areas of controversy in the
literature.
4. Formulate questions that need further
research.
8. Conclusion
● A literature review is a piece of discursive
prose, not a list describing or summarizing
one piece of literature after another.
