Writing The Literature Review
Writing The Literature Review
Writing The Literature Review
3.Conclusion
• Summary and highlights of
most important points from
various sub-sections
• Relate/connect findings to
current research being pro-
posed
1.5 IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT
THE
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE:
a. The literature to be reviewed must not only be re-
lated to the topic of the research, but more so,
on the specific objectives actually covered
b. There are no hard-set rules regarding the number
of literature to be included in the RRL, how old or
new are the materials to be covered, or the pro-
portion of local compared to international studies
to be presented. These are all dependent on the
topic of the research and how well it has been
studied locally and abroad.
1.5 IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT
THE
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE:
a. It is important to ensure the accuracy of the information you
presented in your RRL (ex., correct bibliographic citation;
attributing findings to the correct authors etc.) The biblio-
graphic citation should be complete enough to enable a
reader to track down the article if they wish to do so