1. The Literature Review
Dr Areefa Albahri

2. The Literature Review
The review of the literature is defined as a broad, comprehensive, in-depth, systematic, and critical review of scholarly publications, unpublished scholarly print materials, audiovisual materials, and personal communications

3. The Literature Review
The review of the literature is traditionally considered a systematic and critical review of the most important published scholarly literature on a particular topic.
Scholarly literature refer to published and unpublished data based literature and conceptual literature materials found in print and non print forms
Data based literature reports of completed research
Conceptual research reports of theories, concepts

4. The value of literature
Glean idea
Study other research
Give idea areas where research needs to be done

5. Types of Resources
General Reference tools : come first (Systematical information)
Examples: articles, books, reports, indexes, abstracts
Primary sources : their study directly to the reader(Detail information)
Example: journal

6. Secondary sources : author describe the work of others
Secondary sources : author describe the work of others.(quick overview)
Examples: educational encyclopedias, textbooks

7. Steps Involve in a Literature Research
Define research problem
Look relevant secondary sources
Select and peruse general reference
Formulate search terms
Search relevant primary sources
Obtain and read relevant primary sources, and note and summarize key points in the sources.

8. Doing a Computer Search
Define the problem
Decide the extent of the search
Decide on the database
Select search words and discover descriptors
Conduct the search

9. The Benefits of Computer Search
Fast
Cheap
Provides printout also

10. Steps of Searching the Literature
Determine concept/issue/topic/problem
Conduct computer (and/or hand) search
Weed out irrelevant sources before printing
Organize sources from printout for retrieval
Retrieve relevant sources
Conduct preliminary reading and weed out irrelevant sources
Critically read each source (summarize & critique each source)
Synthesize critical summaries

11. Steps in Writing Literature Review
Organize analyze
Integrate categorize
Synthezise
Locate and Evaluate the Sources

12. Why we need them? Improve & restate the question
Helps to clarify purpose & scope of the literature review.
Examine the topic more deeply.

13. 5 parts of Literature Review
Introduction
Body
Summary
Conclusions
Reference List

14. The Use of Literature Review in Quantitative Research
Design and method
The literature review reveals strengths and weaknesses of designs and methods of previous research studies
Outcome of the analysis (findings, implications, and recommendations)
The literature review is used to discuss the results or findings of a study. The discussion relates the study’s findings to what was or was not found in the review of literature

15. Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary source: is written by a person(s) who developed the theory or conducted the research
Secondary source: is written by a person(s) other than the individual who developed the theory or conducted the research

16. Thank You