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Review of Related Literature and Studies
The Review of Related Literature and Studies as an independent chapter contains

two major parts:
Conceptual literature
Related studies
Conceptual Literature
It contains literature coming from books, journals, and other forms of
materials, concerning or relevant to the study, but are data-free or nonempirical material, coming from both foreign and local sources.
Conceptual literature is different from a research literature because it is more
readily available than the research literature.
Conceptual literature is more comprehensive .
Related Studies
These are empirically-based, like scientific paper, theses, and dissertations
both published and unpublished, coming from local and foreign sources.
In both types of literature, the most recent ones should be invoked or
mentioned, or only what is the state of the art unless it is historical
literature.
When doing a review of related studies, give proper acknowledgement and
then get the gist of its objectives, findings, and conclusions using your own
words.
Review of Literature
Writing the literature review allows you to understand:
How other scholars have written about your topic.
The range of theories used to analyze materials or data
How other scholars connect their specific research topics to larger issues,
questions, or practices within the field.
The best methodologies and research techniques for your particular topic.
Purpose of the literature review
identify if the topic has been researched
provide design ideas
identify methodological problems
identify special needs
provide information for the research report
Literature review can be categorized to included major types of literature such as:
A. Sources of research, reading from various research journals, theses, and
dissertations.
B. Theoretical literature from books, articles, scholarly/professional
magazines/journals, and speeches.
C. General and special related literature on field of educational endeavor,
education business, psychology, medical researches, quality health and
health sciences, and the like.
D. Methodology literature
E. Research literature coming from other disciplines, or those related with
anthropology, sociology, economics, and other disciplines
F. Popular literature written by experts.
Thoughts in Writing a Literature Review
1. discuss the differences or the similarities of your paper with it, either
within the chapter, or in the synthesis of the review of related literature.
2. at the end of the chapter, you may give justifications of your study, or the
reasons why you undertook the study and that your attempt to confirm,
negate, or improve the findings with new knowledge. This is called
bridging the gap.
3. be sure to acknowledge the contributions of the authors and writers or
they should from part of your bibliography.
Functions of a Theory
A theory is important since it establishes its direction, a target, or an objective to
be attained.
A. It provides the study with conceptual or theoretical framework, the
process for hypothesizing and contemplating its end result.
B. It gives you insight on the past findings or the current status of the topic
you are working on.
C. It gives information on what objectives and methodologies are to be used
to attain the purposes of the study.
D. It gives information on what future studies can be made to add knowledge
to the present and current status of the topic.
Review of Literature: Rhetorical Functions
Situates the current study within a wider disciplinary conversation.
Illustrates the uniqueness, importance of and need for your particular project.
Justifies methodological choices.
Demonstrates familiarity with the topic and appropriate approaches to
studying it.
An Effective Literature Review should
Flesh out the background of your study.
Critically assess important research trends or areas of interest.
Identify potential gaps in knowledge.
Establish a need for current and/or future research projects.
Tips on drafting a literature review
Categorize the literature into recognizable topic clusters:
stake out the various positions that are relevant to your project,
build on conclusions that lead to your project, or
demonstrate the places where the literature is lacking.
Avoid Smith says X, Jones says Y literature reviews.
Avoid including all the studies on the subject.
Avoid polemics, praise, and blame.
Writing Literature Reviews: Key Point
You are entering a scholarly conversation already in progress. The literature
review shows that youve been listening and that you have something
valuable to say.
After assessing the literature in your field, you should be able to answer the
following questions:
Why should we study (further) this research topic/problem?
What contributions will my study make to the existing literature?

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