The document discusses how to conduct an effective literature review. It explains that a literature review analyzes and synthesizes previous research rather than reporting original work. It emphasizes being organized around a research question, synthesizing both agreed upon and controversial findings, and identifying areas for further study. The document advises asking questions about the scope and quality of the review as well as critically evaluating each source to understand its perspective, framework, and relationship to the topic. The goal is to produce a cohesive analysis rather than a list of summaries.

1. Literature review
Wataru Sanuki

2. Outline
 What
is the literature review?
 The skills to do literature review
 Things to do in literature review
 Ask yourself questions
 Ask yourself questions about each
book or article you include
 Summary

3. What is the literature review?
 A literature
review is a text that written
by someone to consider about the
point of the literature. Literature
reviews are secondary sources, and
such, do not report any new or original
experimental work.

4. The skills to do literature review
The literature review needs these skills
1. Information seeking
The ability to scan the literature efficiently,
using manual or computerized methods, to
identify a set of useful articles and books.
2. Critical appraisal
The ability to apply principles of analysis to
identify unbiased and valid studies.

5. Things to do in literature review
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Be organized around and related directly
to the thesis or research question you are
developing
Synthesize results into a summary of what
is and is not known.
Identify areas of controversy in the
literature.
Formulate questions that need further
research.

6. Ask yourself questions
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What is the specific thesis, problem, or research
question that my literature review helps to define?
What type of literature review am I conducting?
What it the scope of my literature review?
How good was information seeking?
Have I critically analysed the literature I use.
Have I cited and discussed studies contrary to my
perspective
Will the reader find my literature review relevant,
appropriate, and useful.

7. Ask yourself questions about
each book or article you include
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Has the author formulated a problem/issue?
Is it clearly defined?
Cold the problem have been approached more effectively
from another perspective?
What is the author’s research orientation?
What is the author’s theoretical framework?
What is the relationship between the theoretical and research
perspectives?
Has the author evaluated the literature relevant to the
problem/issue?
In a research study, how good are the basic components of
the study design?

8. Summary
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Literature review is a piece of discursive prose.
It is not a list describing or summarizing one piece
of literature after another.
It is usually a bad sign to see every paragraph
beginning with the name of a researcher.
We are not trying to list all the material published,
but to synthesize and evaluate it according to the
guiding concept of you thesis or research question.
Reference
The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conduction It
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of-writing/literature-review