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Chapter 2 - Literature Review
Chapter 2 - Literature Review
Chapter 2 - Literature Review
LITERATURE REVIEW
TPS 352
by
DR. NOR EEDA HAJI ALI
OUTLINES
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INTRODUCTION DEFINITION ELEMENTS TYPES PROCESS
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CONCLUSION
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INTRODUCTION
▪ A good quality thesis/dissertation depends on a good
literature review (LR) (meaning wide, deep, critical and
focussed review).
▪ LR is an umbrella term for 3 types of reviews (See figure). Literature
Review Theoretical
(Implementat review
▪ The LR is a background of the study that must identify key ion)
variables, theory, and conceptual framework.
4. Critics
3. Compare
2.Synthesis
1. Summary
2. Synthesis
SAMPLE LANGUAGE FOR SUMMARY AND SYNTHESIS
▪ Normadin (2008) has demonstrated…
▪ Early work by Hausman, Schwarz, and Graves (2016) was
1. Summary concerned with…
▪ Elsayed and Stern (1997) compared algorithms for
handling…
▪ Additional work by Karasawa et. Al (2008), Azadivar,
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and
Parry et. al (2005) deal with…
http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/write-a-literature-review
HOW TO CONDUCT A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW?
Neuman, 2006
• Based on the concept approach –author or concept centric or
How to combination with unit of analysis (level e.g. individual, group and
conduct/structu
ring the LR ?
organisational).
Plagiarism –
i) Writing in the text without citation
ii) Writing in text with a citation but copying more than one paragraph in a row.
✓ Authors cited in the text but not listed in the list of references
✓ Authors are listed in the list of references but not presence in text
✓ The third parties citation but deliberately citing the first (original) author. It
should be written as ‘Rahman as cited by (author) (2020) defined recreation as
….
TIPS
▪ Use endnotes/Mendeley software to assist LR writing/citation process
▪ Place of citation:
1. At the beginning of the sentences e.g.
a. According to/As mentioned by/ Nor-Hisham (2020), recreation can be
defined as …….
b. Nor Hisham (2020) defines/asserts that /states that recreation is…..
2. At the end of sentences e.g. Recreation can be defined as ……(Nor Hisham,
2020).
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