Tuesday, February 14, 2006
an essay describing steps for writing a literature review
Literature reviews are written to provide a review of the current knowledge in a particular field. So in order to write literate reviews, we need to compile some imformation in a specail field, to evaluate the information, and then to integrate the studies together. It is imperative that when we evaluate the studies we have to get some critical thinkings.
If we just descrive reseacher's insists of ideas, the reviews is worthless. Therefor writing a literature review is kind of a difficult task.
When you write literature reviews, you always try to keep in mind that the literature review should provide the context for your research by looking at what work has already been done in your research area. A mere summary of other people's work is not a good literature reviews. To write a good literature, we always try to think of some questions such as what is purpose, current theories, and common knoledge. etc?
Finnaly, we can say that the structure of literature reviews are consist of three main parts- introduction, body, and conclusion. In the introduction part, we can say what we are going to say. In the body part, we can tell the story by developing, arguing and presenting the main points. And lastely at the conclusion we can say the summaries of the reviews .
If we just descrive reseacher's insists of ideas, the reviews is worthless. Therefor writing a literature review is kind of a difficult task.
When you write literature reviews, you always try to keep in mind that the literature review should provide the context for your research by looking at what work has already been done in your research area. A mere summary of other people's work is not a good literature reviews. To write a good literature, we always try to think of some questions such as what is purpose, current theories, and common knoledge. etc?
Finnaly, we can say that the structure of literature reviews are consist of three main parts- introduction, body, and conclusion. In the introduction part, we can say what we are going to say. In the body part, we can tell the story by developing, arguing and presenting the main points. And lastely at the conclusion we can say the summaries of the reviews .
