1. Tutor : Maureen McLachlan
Literature review
Tutor : Maureen McLachlan

2. Do you feel like this?

3. Some questions you need to answer
While conducting your literature review, ask yourself questions, Some of the questions might be;
What is the definite issue, problem, or research question that your literature review writing will help to define?
What kind of literature review you are writing?

4. What kind of literature review you are writing?
• Is it around the issues of theory? Methodology? Policy?
• Quantitative research (for example; is your literature review on the usefulness of a new procedure)?
• Qualitative research (for example; is your literature review just around the studies you have conducted so far)?

5. The scope of your literature review.
• The types of publications you are using (For example; are you using journals, books, government documents or popular media for literature review writing)?
• What order are you conducting your literature review in (for example Early Years, psychology, sociology, Early Years sector)?

6. How excellent are you about information seeking for your literature review?
• Has your investigation been broad sufficiently to make sure that you have explored all the relevant information? • Is your literature review writing narrow enough to eliminate irrelevant and redundant information? • Is the amount of sources you have utilized appropriate for the length of your literature review writing?

7. Have you critically analysed the literature you are using?
• Do you follow from beginning to end, a set of concepts and questions, contrasting items to each other in the ways the author deals with them?
• As an alternative of just listing and summarizing items, do you assess them, discuss strengths and weaknesses?

8. Do you now feel like this?