PR1 Lesson 8 Review of Related Literature PDF
PR1 Lesson 8 Review of Related Literature PDF
PR1 Lesson 8 Review of Related Literature PDF
, Sampaloc, Manila
Accountancy, Business, and Management
Practical Research 1
Module 8:
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson students are expected to:
1. explain the meaning of review of related literature
2. carry out a review of related literature properly
3. critically evaluate review of related literature reports
Literature – an oral or written record of man’s significant experiences that are artistically conveyed in a
prosaic manner.
Review of related literature – an analysis of man’s written or spoken knowledge of the world
- Here, a researcher examines the representations of man’s thinking about the world to determine the
connection of their research with what people already know about it.
- Involves interpretation and merging the researcher’s perceptions with the author’s ideas
Approaches of RRL
1. Traditional Review of Literature Review
- summarize present forms of knowledge on a specific subject
- Aim: to give an expanded or new understanding of an existing work
- Prone to subjectivity
- Does not require you to describe your method of reviewing lietratire but expects you to state your
intentions in conducting review and name the sources of information
Types:
1. Conceptual review – analysis of concepts or ideas to give mening to some national or world
views
2. Critical review- focuses on theories or hypotheses and examines meaning and results of their
application to situation
3. State-of-the-Art review- makes the researcher deal with the latest research studies on the
subject
4. Expert Review- encourages a well-known expert to do the RRL because of the influence of a
certain ideology, paradigm, or belief on him/her
5. Scoping review- prepares a situation for a future research work in the form of project making
about community development, government policies, and health services, among others
Steps:
1. Have a clear understanding of the research questions.
2. Plan your manner of obtaining data
3. Do literature search
4. Using a certain standard, determine which data, studies, or sources of knowledge are valuable
or not
5. Determine the methodological soundness of research studies
6. Summarize what you have gathered from various sources of data
Nature of Studies inquiry-based techniques wide and through search for all
involving several studies studies
Structure of RRL
Regardless of the structure used, RRL must have an organizational pattern of the results of review
contains three elements (Ridley, 2013):
1. An introduction to explain the organizational method of your literature review
2. Headings and subheadings to indicate the right placement of your supporting statements
3. Summary to concisely restate your main point
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Sample 1:
Sample 2: