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What’s the biggest challenge involved in writing your literature review?
Writing it.
However, the review of literature is the foundation of your entire thesis and goes beyond being a simple summary, holding a far more critical aspect. Ideally, your review of literature is a report that tests all the information related broadly to your chosen field. It describes, summarizes, tests, and gives a general direction to your research.
Before I lose you to scrolling, let us quickly understand what the fuss about this section is, i.e. why exactly is a literature review so important?
The most important and obvious answer to this is that it shows your research. It helps you give readers proof why your research is important and unlike everything else that is already there on the topic — asserts the importance of your primary research.
If you follow these simple steps, your review of literature doesn’t have to be the tedious mountain you were imagining it to be! Let’s get to it.
PHASE I: The Research.
- Assuming that you have now identified a broad topic for your dissertation, it’s time to assimilate the research. However, once you have decided the topic you are researching on, it is important to ensure that you eventually narrow…
