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Depending on the length of your literature review, you can combine several of these strategies (for
example, your overall structure might be thematic, but each theme is discussed chronologically). As a
note, general reference texts on a theory or subject, or on a particular methodology, are NOT what
you’re looking for. What are the common mistakes to avoid when writing a literature review. And,
we’ll stay with you through any additional feedback from your advisors. A review organized in this
manner would shift between time periods within each section according to the point made. We’ve
written a step-by-step guide that you can follow below. Cook, Kathleen E. and Elise Murowchick.
“Do Literature Review Skills Transfer from One Course to Another?” Psychology Learning and
Teaching 13 (March 2014): 3-11; Fink, Arlene. If you have found some recurring central themes, you
can organize your literature review into subsections that address different aspects of the topic. Now
consider some typical ways of organizing the sources into a review: Chronological: If your review
follows the chronological method, you could write about the materials above according to when they
were published. This makes you wonder about American whaling methods during the time portrayed
in Moby Dick, so you find some academic articles published in the last five years on how accurately
Herman Melville portrayed the whaling scene in his novel. Given this, it will be important to
highlight those studies you find that use qualitative methods to explore perceptions of such variables
and how they relate to one another — especially phenomenological studies. For example,
kinesiologists studying heart disease will review the literature to identify acceptable measurement
methods, whereas anthropologists researching intersections of culture and technology need to
examine the literature to identify different categories of analysis. A literature review’s goal is to
provide a “behind the scenes” look at how you did your research, underpinning it as a valid piece of
scholarly research. Try to place your current work and research within this wider discussion by
considering how your research supports, contradicts, or departs from other scholars’ research. When
approaching the literature review chapter in your study, it’s very important to keep in mind the
overall purpose of this chapter in your larger study. To emphasize this point, I will say again that you
need to focus on research articles that are published in peer-reviewed journals when selecting your
sources. Simply put, your task here is to present a synthesis of what’s been done (and found) within
the empirical research, so that you can clearly assess the current state of knowledge and identify
potential research gaps, which leads us to our third essential ingredient. Were the results effectively
interpreted and reported. How does the publication contribute to your understanding of the topic. A
literature review may be a stand alone work or the introduction to a larger research paper, depending
on the assignment. It’s like a report card for your research: it assesses the quality and originality of
your work and determines whether you’re on the right track. A service of the National Library of
Medicine, National Institutes of Health. It is often written as part of a thesis, dissertation, or research
paper, in order to situate your work in relation to existing knowledge. Be aware that many — but not
all — databases provide access to research that has been subject to peer review prior to publication.
That is because the survey nature of the literature review does not allow for in-depth discussion or
detailed quotes from the text. They should arise out of your organizational strategy. Such discussion
in your literature review will be important for clarifying how a qualitative phenomenological
approach will be optimal in answering your own specific research questions about how faculty make
sense of and interpret workload factors as influential on their job satisfaction and retention
decisions. In the case of a literature review, you are the creating a new forest, which you will build
by using the trees you educational in the literature you read. These themes will also be used as the
headings for your Matrix, which will be discussed in detail in Section B: Planning and Researching.
The lit review is an important genre in many disciplines, not just literature (i.e., the study of works of
literature such as novels and plays).
For example, scholars who published in the 1960s interpreted a historical event differently than those
who published in the early 2000s. Once you have determined your audience, you can then decide
what type of literature review is appropriate. Writing an embedded literature review will clarify your
understanding of the material and demonstrate your thorough research skills. Victoria (BC):
University of Victoria; 2017 Feb 27. To obtain seminal pieces, as for example to support discussion
of your theoretical framework, you can relax or expand the timeframe for publication. Two authors
independently screened titles and abstracts to determine inclusion status. The bibliography or
reference section of sources you've already read, such as required readings in the course syllabus, are
also excellent entry points into your own research. Here are some examples: Chronological: The
simplest approach is to trace the development of the topic over time, which helps familiarize the
audience with the topic (for instance if you are introducing something that is not commonly known
in your field). Types of Literature Reviews It is important to think of knowledge in a given field as
consisting of three layers. Finally, average impact scores increased over time with two notable
growth periods. These sections are important for highlighting key findings that you’ve discussed in
that section and tying them back to your research focus. Explain why this has been the case and how
these approaches enhance or limit current understandings of the topic. Analysis: Involves critically
evaluating and summarizing key findings, methodologies, and debates found in academic literature.
For scholars, the depth and breadth of the literature review emphasizes the credibility of the writer in
his or her field. Then, after you’ve identified a handful of articles that relate to your own topical
focus, check out the keywords listed on each of these studies. As explained above, systematic
reviews seek to identify causation. More often than not, even a new bunch of cool templates
presented with the “available regarding free” tags are not offered at zero dollars per say. And, we’ll
stay with you through any additional feedback from your advisors. In other words, your theoretical
framework should reveal some insights about what answers you might expect to find to your
research questions. Key Takeaways To recap, the three ingredients that need to be mixed into your
literature review are: The foundation of theory or theoretical framework The empirical or evidence-
based research As we mentioned earlier, these are components of a literature review and not
(necessarily) a structure for your literature review chapter. It’s like a report card for your research: it
assesses the quality and originality of your work and determines whether you’re on the right track.
This lengthy chapter functions to ground your own upcoming analysis in a comprehensive discussion
of recent and relevant research. Most lit reviews use a basic introduction-body-conclusion structure;
if your lit review is part of a larger paper, the introduction and conclusion pieces may be just a few
sentences while you focus most of your attention on the body. Tips for writing the research design
and methods section: Specify the methodological approaches you intend to employ to obtain
information and the techniques you will use to analyze the data. This is why so many new researchers
seek help from a dissertation consultant when they hit this chapter of their studies. Download Free
PDF View PDF A Survey of Data Mining: Concepts with Applications and its Future Scope IJCST
Eighth Sense Research Group In this paper we have to focus on data mining concept and its tools
and technology which help us for market perspective to take a proper decision and get a proper
result. Searching the extant literature: The next step consists of searching the literature and making
decisions about the suitability of material to be considered in the review ( Cooper, 1988 ). You’ll
want to keep the chapter summary short and to the point, and avoid going over one page in length.
Most lit reviews use a basic introduction-body-conclusion structure; if your lit review is part of a
larger paper, the introduction and conclusion pieces may be just a few sentences while you focus
most of your attention on the body. Take notes that you can later incorporate into the text of your
literature review.
Often, the literature review is where you can establish your research as filling a particular gap or as
relevant in a particular way. For this reason, there is a need for innovative ways of research
approaches to allow objectivity and comfortability. How does the publication relate to other
literature in the field. Therefore it is characterized by in-depth discourses and may involve subjective
intuitions. Notice that Falk and Mills do quote certain terms that were coined by the author, not
common knowledge, or taken directly from the study. Again, remember that you need to obtain peer-
reviewed research. Specifically discuss how you expect your study will advance existing knowledge
and how your study is unique. In other words, theoretical literature provides a prediction or
expectation of what one might find based on reason and logic, whereas empirical research tests the
accuracy of those predictions using actual real-world data. When writing your review, keep in mind
these issues. You can use our free APA Reference Generator for quick, correct, consistent citations.
This exercise requires a significant investment on the part of researchers, who must ensure enhanced
objectivity and avoid biases or mistakes. Preliminary suppositions and implications The purpose of
this section is to argue how and in what ways you anticipate that your research will refine, revise, or
extend existing knowledge in the area of your study. For the introduction (and discussion) of a
research paper, masters thesis or dissertation 3. Download Free PDF View PDF Research Article
February 2014 Data Mining: A Literature Survey Sankar Keeral Koloth Vidyadharan Download Free
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Zaman With progression in technology specifically in last three decades or so, an enormous
magnitude of information has been transitioned into a digital form, which resulted in formation of
enormous data repositories. Like any other academic text, your literature review should have an
introduction, a main body, and a conclusion. Here are examples of other sections, usually in the form
of a single paragraph, you may need to include depending on the type of review you write: Current
Situation: Information necessary to understand the current topic or focus of the literature review.
They should arise out of your organizational strategy. Use Quotes Sparingly Some short quotes are
appropriate if you want to emphasize a point, or if what an author stated cannot be easily
paraphrased. For example, scholars who published in the 1960s interpreted a historical event
differently than those who published in the early 2000s. Chapter 9?Methods for Literature Reviews
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These authors reviewed the existing literature on personal health record ( phr ) systems including
design, functionality, implementation, applications, outcomes, and benefits. It is often written as part
of a dissertation, thesis, research paper, or proposal. Analyze its literature review, the samples and
variables used, the results, and the conclusions. We also pride ourselves on our very prompt and in-
depth e-mail responses, 365 days per year. Most lit reviews use a basic introduction-body-conclusion
structure; if your lit review is part of a larger paper, the introduction and conclusion pieces may be
just a few sentences while you focus most of your attention on the body. If you include studies prior
to the past five years that are not landmark studies, you should defend why you have chosen these
rather than more current ones. This is called citation tracking and there are a number of sources that
can help you identify who has cited whom, particularly scholars from outside of your discipline.
Writing a literature review can also be beneficial in terms of gaining a better understanding of the
field you are studying. For example, what methods have been used by other researchers in similar
studies. Such discussion in your literature review will be important for clarifying how a qualitative
phenomenological approach will be optimal in answering your own specific research questions about
how faculty make sense of and interpret workload factors as influential on their job satisfaction and
retention decisions.
Find Models Use the exercise of reviewing the literature to examine how authors in your discipline
or area of interest have composed their literature review sections. Rather than examining the topic
itself, historiography is the study of how historical topics have been examined over time by other
historians. Datamining techniques helps to make business decisions. The sources support what Falk
and Mills are saying. Here, though, you get the templates with just the simply click of the mouse
without paying money. Some applications, tasks and issues related to it have also been illustrated.
You can reach out to the subject librarian for a consultation. Last, Bandara, Miskon, and Fielt (2011)
proposed a structured, predefined and tool-supported method to identify primary studies within a
feasible scope, extract relevant content from identified articles, synthesize and analyze the findings,
and effectively write and present the results of the literature review. The general differences of data
analysis procedures between these two approaches are summarized in the Chart (Bala, 2005) and a
Table that follows. Consider how each source approaches your topic in addition to their collective
points of intersection and separation. First of all, blend discussion and analysis of different studies
together within your paragraphs, avoiding the dreaded “reads like an annotated bibliography”
comment from your reviewers. What other sections you include in the body is up to you. This post is
based on our popular online course, Literature Review Bootcamp. In these cases, systematic reviews
can use qualitative synthesis methods such as vote counting, content analysis, classification schemes
and tabulations, as an alternative approach to narratively synthesize the results of the independent
studies included in the review. Systematic Review This form consists of an overview of existing
evidence pertinent to a clearly formulated research question, which uses pre-specified and
standardized methods to identify and critically appraise relevant research, and to collect, report, and
analyze data from the studies that are included in the review. The length of embedded literature
reviews varies, but is usually dependent upon the length of your assignment. You will also describe
your search strategy, inclusion criteria, and overall methodology so that your review is reputable and
replicable. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998; Jesson, Jill. How is the topic of your
research proposal related to the problem. Then, it ends with a conclusion section that reiterates the
research question while summarizing the insights you had through your research. Expertise with the
requirements of all major online universities. Summarize the literature in table or concept map format
Galvan recommends building tables as a key way to help you overview, organize, and summarize
your findings, and suggests that including one or more of the tables that you create may be helpful
in your literature review. This makes you wonder about American whaling methods during the time
portrayed in Moby Dick, so you find some academic articles published in the last five years on how
accurately Herman Melville portrayed the whaling scene in his novel. Carefully select sources that
will provide current and credible information on your topic. These authors synthesized published
articles that describe the development process of mobile health ( m-health ) interventions for
patients’ cancer care self-management. This gives your supervisor the opportunity to see what you’re
researching, how you’re conducting that research, and, if necessary, provide feedback and
suggestions to make your research stronger. Again, remember that you need to obtain peer-reviewed
research. Well, the research gap should serve as the core justification for your study. The authors here
recapitulate important features of Hamilton’s study, but then synthesize it by rephrasing the study’s
significance and relating it to their own work. Describe the major issues or problems to be addressed
by your research.

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