Chapter 5 – Writing a literature review. In this chapter students will be able to: Compare insights from various scholarly articles, prepare a clear and well organized literature review, make a case for your purpose statement and research questions, take notes in a manner useful to conducting a literature review.
Trang 1Planning an Applied Research
Project Chapter 5 – Writing a Literature Review
Trang 2» Compare insights from various scholarly articles
» Prepare a clear and well organized literature review
» Make a case for your purpose statement and
research questions
» Take notes in a manner useful to conducting a
literature review
Trang 3» Audience
» Coherence
» Criteria for evaluation
» Focus
» Logical flow
» Perspective
» Point of view
» Tone
» Voice
Trang 4Literature Review
» Provide information to scholars
» Include a comprehensive set of information about the current status of research in the field
» Demonstrate your credibility
» Encourage support for your research
» Enable you to move forward with your research
Trang 5» Scholarly professionals in the field
» Industry professionals
» Journal editors
» Editorial boards of journals
» Other students
» Other colleagues
» People interested in your topic
» Funders
» Reviewers of proposals
Trang 6» Objective
» Dispassionate voice
» Third person point of view
» Avoid:
˃ Condescension
˃ Familiarity
˃ Lack of enthusiasm
˃ Personal point of view – “I” “we”
Trang 7The Perspective of a Literature Review
» Broad picture of the state of scholarship in an area (and often related areas)
» Picture of the quality and range of the scholarship
» Discussion of patterns and gaps in the key findings
of various scholarship
» Analysis of the findings in the scholarship without too much detail
» Evaluation of the scholarship to point out the
necessity or value of the proposed project
Trang 8Literature Review
» Collect your notes into categories – methods, findings, sample sizes, etc
» Organize into a coherent essay with sections
» Write the sections
» Write a conclusion and then an introduction
» Write transitions between sections
» Review to ensure a focus on findings
» Check for accurate sources and sufficient
references
» Revise for clear, objective point of view
Trang 9Literature Review (cont’d)
˃ Introduction – explaining the topic and the
significance of the purpose statement and
research questions; often including background information
˃ Subsections with headings – patterns of findings, gaps in findings, research methods, sampling
strategies, applications
˃ Conclusion – summarizing key findings and
pointing out the need for the research
Trang 10Literature Review (cont’d)
˃ Clear introduction
˃ Strong logic
˃ Comprehensive summary
˃ Careful reasoning
˃ Statements about common patterns of research (documented by sources)
˃ Statements about gaps (documented by
sources)
Trang 11Criteria for a Good Literature Review
» Good Literature Review are:
˃ Well written
˃ Carefully constructed
˃ Persuasive
˃ Well organized
˃ Insightful
Trang 12Review (cont’d)
˃ Clarity
˃ Coherence
˃ Comprehensiveness
˃ Cogency
˃ Currency
˃ Credibility
˃ Creativity
˃ Contribution
Trang 13» Anything unclear?
» One thing that I learned from this class is …