Literature Review

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Welcome to my blog, this task about literature review. This task is assigned by Prof. Dr. Dilip Barad sir.

Defiine Literature Review :

A literature review is a piece of academic writing demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the academic literature on a specific topic placed in context. A literature review also includes a critical evaluation of the material; this is why it is called a literature review rather than a literature report. It is a process of reviewing the literature, as well as a form of writing.

In a larger piece of written work, such as a dissertation or project, a literature review is usually one of the first tasks carried out after deciding on a topic. Reading combined with critical analysis can help to refine a topic and frame research questions. Conducting a literature review establishes your familiarity with and understanding of current research in a particular field before carrying out a new investigation. After doing a literature review, you should know what research has already been done and be able to identify what is unknown within your topic.

Focusing on different aspects of your literature review can be useful to help plan, develop, refine and write it. 

The review of previous studies is important. Also the writer critically evaluates previous studies.

Why is literature review carried out in research?

Also a great benefit of literature reviews is that as we read, we’ll get a better understanding of how research findings are presented and discussed in your particular discipline. If we pay attention to what we read and try to achieve a similar style, we’ll become more successful at writing for our discipline. Ideas are to be organised thematically with main points relating to the topic of the literature review, showing how sources relate to each other and contribute to knowledge about the topic.