What is Literature Review?

Literature Review

Literature Review in the form of a comprehensive summary of a specific topic from the previous research. Those research are of article research, journal research, book, and other sources. The purpose of a literature review is to survey the journals, articles, scholarly books to prevent duplication of the research paper and also provide the credit of the original researcher of that journals, articles or books.

What is Literature Review

Literature review and its purposes

The literature review is like a survey of journals, articles, scholarly books and other sources of research. It is done to clarify this previous research of journals, articles, scholarly books and other sources of research where it has the feature of describing the research, summarizing the research. It provides the theoretical concept for the research of specific topics and helps to determine the objectives and nature of the journals, articles, scholarly books and other sources of research.  Moreover, it is like the aspect of acknowledgment regarding the writings of previous writings of the researchers, and consequently, it ensures the reader that the research paper and writing paper is fully plagiarized-free.  The consequences of mentioning the previous work by the way of LR in the field of study is that the research paper is fully evaluated by the author.

From the reader’s pint of view, LR is like a landscape that is providing the reader full understanding regarding the nature, purpose and objectives of those journals, articles, scholarly books and other sources of research work. This landscape of that journals, articles, scholarly books and other sources of research work mainly informs the reader regarding the validity of the research paper that the author has fully assimilated all of the previous researches papers along with relevant significant works and those are almost plagiarized free and valid.

LR basically achieves the purpose of the reader as well as writers. So, from readers’ point of view, the purpose of literature review is to convey to the article research, journal research, book and other sources read by reader to attain the clear knowledge and transparent ideas regarding the topics of the research that have been established. Moreover, the reader can find out the strengths and weaknesses of them by reviewing the authorized article research, journal research, book and other sources of the research paper. In addition to this, from the writer’s point of view, the purpose of literature review is to have the validity of the research paper that no one can duplicate the originals writings and if it is needed to use that research paper for another research, it must to acknowledge the writers name as references in the journals or articles.

Literature review is an evaluation of the article research, journal research, book and other sources literature in specific topic area. It mainly document the specific writings for the acknowledgement of writings. It has four main purposes as summarized:

  • It almost surveys the literature of specific chosen topic or study
  • It almost synthesizes literature information to summarize the specific article research, journal research, book and other sources.
  • Literature review almost analyses the attained literature information by finding out the gaps between the previous papers and current papers.
  • Literature review almost analyses the attained literature information by identifying the limitations of those research paper or study and formulating those areas of research journals or articles for further research.
  • Literature review researches the literature information of those specific topics by reviewing the areas of raised controversy provided by other writers or researchers.
  • To present, the literature of journals, articles or books in an organized way, literature review is an effective survey.

So, literature review is defined by the way of concept to figure out the acknowledgment, the validity of research work to determine the descriptive thesis of research work or summaries of research work.

Written by

Md. Shadequr Rahaman

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What is Literature Review?

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