Purpose and Importance of Literature Reviews / Peter Stokes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stokes, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dissertations, Academic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2025.

Summary:

This guide explains the purposes and importance of a literature review as a necessary and an integral part of conducting research. A literature review is a summative account and overview of the writing, various media information, comment and debate that have taken place in relation to a specific subject or topic. The guide explains that the literature review constitutes secondary research (data already collected) and explores the meaning and significance of this. Furthermore, this guide underlines the main characteristics and structure of a literature review. Literature reviews can take a number of forms including, typically, systematic (following a prescribed selection process and set of parameters) and narrative (more author(s)-individualistic in approach and following a prose style). The guide discusses the factors that may underpin the choice of approach and the strengths and weaknesses of each. In addition, the guide discusses how the researcher should position their own research and argument in relation to an extant literature.While it is vital to understand the nature and purpose of a literature review--i.e., its DNA--it is also equally important to understand the role of a literature review in relation to the other chapters and sections of a thesis and this guide explains this. Overall, researchers/students often view doing a literature review as something of a laborious chore. However, it is better to view it as an opportunity for the researchers/students to work out and position themselves in relation to the debates taking place within various domains globally.

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ISBN:

1-03-621746-9

9781036217464

OCLC:

1523169111