Conducting a Comprehensive Literature Review: Steps, Resources, and Organization

📘 A literature review is a written summary of past and current information and research organized into topics, supporting the importance of the research problem and comparing findings with previous studies.

🔍 The six steps in conducting a literature review are: 1) Identifying key terms, 2) Searching for relevant literature using search engines, 3) Evaluating and selecting the literature.

📚 Review of related literature must be from reputable journals, thesis, or dissertations.

🔎 Identify key terms and pose a research question to answer.

‍🔍 Use online databases and academic resources to search for peer-reviewed articles and textbooks.

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📚 The six-step literature review process is explained, including the identification of relevant databases and exploration of their content.

💻 The assignment requires students to explore several specific databases and three additional ones of their choice.

🔍 The video discusses the process of evaluating and selecting literature for a research study.

📚 Key factors to consider when evaluating literature include topic relevance, individual and site relevance, problem relevance, and accessibility.

📑 The structure of literature reviews for quantitative and qualitative research is similar, involving research problem, questions or hypotheses, data collection, results, methodology, and conclusion.

📚 Organize important concepts and develop a visual representation of the literature.

🗺️ Construct a literature map to interrelate key terms and study areas.

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🔍 A literature review is composed of main components, including end-of-text references, within-text references, headings, and subheadings.

📚 A thematic approach to literature review involves identifying relevant studies, discussing each study in detail, grouping studies by themes, and organizing them under headings.

💡 Writing a literature review requires applying the skills learned in English courses, such as transitional phrases and analyzing contradictory ideas.

Writing skills and communication skills are essential for success in research methods.

Summarizing major themes and providing a rationale for the study based on literature review is crucial.

Importance of research problem, evidence for important factors, and explanation for results should be documented.