1. Summarize of
“the Literature review”
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2. What is review of the literature?
• A literature review
▫ published account by accredited scholars and
researcher
▫ need to convey to reader what is Strengths and
Weaknesses
▫ not only descriptive list or set of summaries
▫ must be defined by a guiding concept

3. For develop your knowledge
• Literature review give you skills in two area
▫ information seeking
 ability to scan literature to identify a set of useful
article or not
▫ critical appraisal
 ability to identify unbiased and valid studies

4. A literature review must do
• organize your directly relate research question
• summary result what is and is not known
• identify area of controversy in the literature
• formulate problem or questions for future
research

5. Ask yourself for your thesis
• What is the specific thesis, problem or research question that my
literature review help to define?
• What type of literature review ?(issues of theory, methodology, policy,
quantitative research, qualitative research)
• What is the scope of my literature review?(e.g., journals, books,
government documents, popular media)
• Have you seek related research?
• Have you compare each items through a set of concepts and questions ?
• Have I cited and discussed studies contrary to my perspective?
• Will the reader find my literature review relevant, appropriate, and
useful?

6. Ask yourself questions for you included
article or book
• Has the author formulated a problem/issue?
• Is its significance (scope, severity, relevance)
clearly established?
• Could the problem have been approached more
effectively from another perspective?
• What is the author's research orientation (e.g.,
interpretive, critical science, combination)?
• What is the author's theoretical framework (e.g.,
psychological, developmental, feminist)?

7. continue..
• What is the relationship between the theoretical and
research perspectives?
• Has the author evaluated the literature fairly
• In a research study, How accurate the research
experiment
• In material written for a popular readership, does
the author bias it
• How does the author structure the argument?
• What is the contribute from article
• How does this book or article relate to the specific
thesis or question I am developing?

8. Summary
• Literature review is not list of fact or experiment
• Literature review is a piece of discursive prose
• Literature review need yourself ideas or concept,
considerate background or any function for
reader
• Literature review help to search comparison
points and relationships
• You may be able to write a paragraph or so to
introduce the focus of each section