PPT Chapter 6

Chapter 6: Reading to Write a Literature Review Week 6

Answer these question. 1. What is a literature review? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why is it important to your thesis? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. Now, what theory do you interest in writing your thesis? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. How can you write thesis literature review? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________

Identifying Structure of Literature Review (LR) • Presents what theoretical framework or/ and research approaches you focused and reviewed from related studies. • Demonstrates objectivity and criticality of current research on a particular topic to justify a future trend of research into a gap. Consequently,

Identifying Structure of Literature Review • A distinctive feature of writing a literature review can be denoted: 1. what knowledge, theories, or concepts the scholars have already known 2. what those ideas or models have been done and developed. • Aimed to outline the key ideas or framework and represent systematically. • Evaluate and clarify the key ideas or theories from the previous studies related to the current study in a particular area. • Criticized to demonstrate which studies can contribute or fail to notice some drawback in their method.

Identifying Structure of Literature Review • If you are required to search the RAs from reliable sources as your literature review, what are you going to look for? • You should look for key terms, topics, subject areas, and issues that can help you develop a research problem that interests you. • To do the literature review, you need to analyze your literature review with the following approaches: • Comparison approach • Evaluative approach • Definition approach • Exploratory approach • Descriptive approach • Interpretive approach

Analysis approaches for LR 1. Comparison approach -- compare and contrast two ideas, constructs, or tangible things with one another. 2. Definition approach -- discuss in depth the cultural and associative meanings of, for example, a political theory, a policy proposal, or a controversial practice. 3. Descriptive approach -- choose a subject that you know well and help others to understand it. 4. Evaluative approach -- assess a theoretical concept, issue, person, place, or thing in a critical way. 5. Exploratory approach -- pursue a specific line of inquiry, often to make recommendations for further research or to advocate and provide evidence for specific actions to be taken. 6. Interpretive approach -- apply the theoretical knowledge gained in your coursework to a particular research problem, such as a business situation in a management course or a psychological case profile.

Analysis approaches for LR • Significantly, the review should include a brief clarification of a topic descriptively and argumentatively. • The scope of the related literature needs to consider from published or unpublished studies which are limited in a particular area of the topic such as, the period, existing problems in different contexts e.g., location, or ethnography. • Also, it should indicate general findings of the related studies and state the comment on a subject area from the literature review to justify a research proposal. • Thus, the ideas should be elicited and contributed to your expecting outcomes or findings.

An Organization of Literature Review • Patterned as an essay (introduction, main body, and conclusion). • The introduction: the overview statement of theories, framework, and approaches from the literature review and outline a brief clarification of a focused topic. • As the consideration of the review is based on what a particular topic you have included or excluded, the organization of the main body can be explicitly presented in chronological and thematic approaches. • That is to say, the body of the literature review should present the theoretical framework and the related theories and practices. • The novice writer should critically clarify and evaluate the related studies from the following proposition, methodological approach, and conclusion or its findings to address drawback and unreliability and to identify accuracy and relevance. • The conclusion should express a broad summary of the crucial findings of the review including notable commonalities.

Exercise I: Identifying the Literature Review Section • Instructions: Look at the title of Theses A-D and the list of the content. Identify the scope of the theoretical framework from the literature review and answer the questions.

Exercise I: Identifying the Literature Review Section

• Questions: • 1. Will you add more specific areas of the related topic or delete some with a critic? Give some reasons.

Exercise II: Identifying the Literature Review Section • Instructions: Identify the focused areas of the literature review from worksheet A and answer the questions below. • 1. What is title of the study in worksheet A? • 2. What is/are the purpose(s) of the study? • 3. What is/are the research question of the study? • 4. According to the title of the study, what specific areas of the literature review did the researcher emphasize? • 5. Could you consider what research approach(es) the researcher focused on according to the worksheet? • 6. Whom participated with the researcher in this study? Please explain.

An Organization of Literature Review

An Organization of Literature Review • Additionally, in-text citations should be placed accurately and completely through the sources in this section. • Sometimes, when considering the individual researcher’s work is significant enough to refer in their work, they can present his or her name as a subject of the sentence structure. • In social science, this style is more prevalent than it is in a science discipline. • Keeping in mind, the scholars can reveal the source in brackets if it might only be mentioned in the paper. • Additionally, the reporting verbs and verb phrases will be used to refer to the sources in different ways. It seems to depend on the meanings and purposes of the ideas used. • For grammatical features in terms of verb tenses, the present perfect tense will be typically used for general references. • In turn, the past simple tense will most generally tend to be used referring to specific areas or studies carried out in the past. The present tense is repeatedly used when referring to the writer’s ideas or words from the related studies as shown in the example provided.

Exercise III: Outlining Your Literature Review • Instructions: After reviewing the theoretical framework and related theories and practices from previous studies, draw an outline of your literature review based on your interesting topic.