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Selecting Relevant Literature
Selecting Relevant Literature
Selecting Relevant Literature
QUARTER 3 WEEK 6
MELCs 15-16. The learner… 15. selects relevant literature; 16. cites literature using a standard
style
Directions. Read the following notes and accomplish the tasks that follow.
NOTES
I. Selecting Relevant Literature
Literature review is an academic text that provides an overview of a particular topic. It helps
identify what is known and not known about a certain subject of study. It involves the use of
synthesis of several scholarly works.
It has several functions such as: 1. It establishes the relevance of the study; 2. It further helps in
establishing the research gap that the study intends to fill; 3. It provides important information
about your topic and the concepts related to it; 4. It presents the contradictions between and
among previous literature; 5. It justifies your research methodology; 6. It presents and discusses
your theoretical frameworks which are the backbone of your study.
3. Drafting the Literature Review. It is in this stage where you actually write your literature
review. In drafting your review, you need to consider how you are going to arrange the works
you will cite. You also need to consider how these works will be linked to one another, to better
provide an overview of the topic you are studying in your research. You shall learn more about
this from the succeeding notes.
2. Modern Language Association (MLA) is largely used for documentation in the humanities,
specifically languages
and literature, including English, modern languages, and comparative literature.
a. In MLA style, a source cited within the body of your text (weak author citation)
requires the author and the
page:
“Most living organisms especially plants and animals are separated from its
external environment by a boundary, thereby forming differences in external and internal
conditions.” (Rea and Dagamac 53).
b. However, if you use the author’s name(s) to introduce the quote (strong author citation), you
do not need to use it in the citation:
As Rea and Dagamac remind us “Most living organisms especially plants and animals
are separated from its external environment by a boundary, thereby forming differences in
external and internal conditions.” (53).
b. In strong author citation, you need to cite the year in parentheses directly after the author’s
name and include the page number following the quotation:
Mina, Villalobos, Hernandez, and Manalo 2014 assert that “Alkenes are obtained in
industrial quantities chiefly by the cracking of petroleum” (210).