This Lecture is created to help the beginner understand how to review literature? Especially those carrying final year thesis at Bechlors and Masters Level in any university

1. WEEK#2 REVIEWING THE
LITERATURE
BY M.USAMA MANSOOR

2. Reviewing the Literature
 A literature review is
 A logical
 And
 Methodical way of organizing
 What has been written about
 A topic by scholars and researchers.

3. Where Can We Find Literature
Review?
 Literature reviews can
 Normally be found at
 The beginning of many
 Essays, research reports, or theses.

4. Purpose of Literature Review
 The purpose of literature review is
 To convey what
 A researcher has learned
 Through a careful reading

5.  Of set of articles, books
 And
 Other relevant forms of
 Scholarship related to
 The research question.

6. Literature Review Helps A
Researcher To Find A Significant
Article
 Creating a literature review
 Allows researchers to
 Demonstrate the ability
 To find significant articles
 Valid studies

7.  Seminal books that are
 Related to their topic as well as
 The analytic skill to
 Synthesize
 And
 Summarize different views on a topic or issue

8. Strong Properties of A Literature
Review
 There are 6 strong properties of a literature
review
 It is organized around
 Issues
 Themes

9.  Factors
 Or
 Variables

10.  That are related
 Directly to the thesis
 Or
 Research question.

11. Property 2
 It demonstrates the researcher’s familiarity
with
 The body of knowledge by
 Providing a good synthesis

12.  What is and is not known about
 The subject in question
 While also identifying

13.  Areas of controversy
 And
 Debate

14.  Or
 Limitations in the
 Literature sharing
 Different perspectives.

15. Property 3
 It indicates the
 Theoretical framework that
 The researcher is
 Working with.

16. Property 4
 It places the
 Formation of research questions
 In their historical
 And
 Disciplinary context.

17. Property 5
 It identifies the
 Most important authors
 Engaged in similar work.

18. Property 6
 It offers an explanation of
 How the researcher
 Can contribute

19.  Toward the existing body of
 Scholarship by
 Pursuing their own
 Thesis or research question