Purposeful

Writing in the
Disciplines
Objective:
1. Identify the unique features of and
requirements in composing text that are
useful across disciplines
• a) Book Review or Article Critique
• b) Literature Review
• c) Research Report
• d) Project Proposal
• e) Position Paper
 Research Topic
• Divide the class into 4 groups.
• Each group shall submit a research topic.
Writing a
Literature
Review
 What is a
Literature Review?
•is a type of academic writing
that provides an overview of a
specific topic.
•It surveys scholarly work such as
academic books (but not textbooks),
computerize databases, conference
proceedings, dissertation’s/theses,
empirical studies, government
reports, historical records, journal
article, monographs, and statistical
handbooks.
 •a literature review
critically analyzes the
relationship among the
scholarly works and the
current work.
•It can be written as a
stand-alone paper or as
part of a research paper
explaining a theoretical
framework and related
studies.
Literature review is not an Annotated
Bibliography
•An annotated bibliography
which presents a summary
and synthesis (i.e., linking
different sources).
 Annotated
Bibliography Book Review Literature Review

Summarizes the Evaluates a book or Reviews a

references and an article significant number
explain how of scholarly work to
important they are be identify what is
in addressing the known and not
research questions known about a
topic
Examples of Literature
Review
•Doing a literature review will
test your ability to seek
literature efficiently and
identify useful scholarly
work.
 •Hence, writing a literature
review involves research,
critical appraisal, and writing.
Functions
of a Literature
Review
•• Justifies a research
questions, method or
theoretical and
conceptual framework
•• Establishes the
relevance of the
topic
•• Provides necessary
information to better
understand a specific
topic or study
•• Shows reviewers
familiarity and
mastery of the
topic
•• Establishes a
niche of the
study
•• Resolves conflict
among
contradictory
studies
Activity 1:

Say “BOOM!” then kaldag if

the statement is correct, and if
not, raise a hand then shout
“DARNA!”.
 1. A literature review
requires skills in
summarizing but not in
synthesizing
information.
 2. A literature
review is an
example of
academic writing.
 3. A literature
review is limited
only to articles.
 4. A literature
review requires skills
in selecting sources.
 5. A literature
review shows a
research gap.
6. Direct quotation
should be used as
frequently as
possible.
7. Writing a literature
review involves
higher-order thinking
skills.
 8. The main purpose of
making a literature review
is to analyze literary texts
such as short stories and
novels.
 9. The quality of
review is dependent
on the quality of the
reviewed articles.
10. The scope of the
review should be
indicated in the
introduction.
11. There could be no
related studies on
your current work.
 12. Research
questions are linked
to the literature
review.
13. If stand-alone paper:
write conclusions;
implications; and
direction for future
studies.
14. Literature review
involves research,
critical appraisal, and
evaluation.
 15. Annotated
bibliography is a
summary of
literature.
 16. You can write a
literature review using
textbooks, computer
databases, journal
article, etc..
17. Literature review
provides a
background of your
current work.
18. Literature review
identifies what is
known and not
known about a topic.
19. Literature review
can be a stand alone
paper or part of a
research.
20. Literature review
analyzes the
relationship among
the scholarly works.
 21. “Because of Facebook’s
popularity, many educators
have explored its educational
use in the tertiary level.”
-is an example of thesis
statement.
 22. If your current study
is about “bullying in
school”, do not include
“bullying in workplace” as
part of literature review.
 23. Write the title of
the scholar work that
you used in literature
review.
24. It is important that
you mention the full
name of the
researcher when used
in citation.
 25. Normally, a
literature review
can be written in
one day.
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