CHAPTER 3: REVIEW OF LITERATURE

How to Organize the Literature?

1. Chronological
Organizing your literature into meaningful “themes”,
and developing an appropriate structure for your literature
review can be achieved in many ways.

2. Conceptual and Thematic Structure

Thematic reviews of the literature are organized around
the topic under investigation, rather than chronologically,
although the chronology of the literature may also be important
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When reviewing a literature, the researcher should:

• Keep in the mind the objectives of the research.
• Begin with the latest books, journals, magazines. The surveyed
materials should be as recent as possible.
• Read the abstract or summary section of a report first to
determine its relevance to your problem.
• Group together similar topics
• Note down the complete bibliographic entry of the material
being reviewed. (author, title, publisher, year, issue and
volume no., web address, date you accessed the electronic
source, etc.)
• Keep “search histories” on file.
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