RESEARCH METHODS
LITERATURE REVIEW
, Why conduct a Literature Review?
A literature review enables critical analysis and
summary of existing research on a particular topic of
interest
• Important for scholarly research, support for
a research proposal or report
• can be a source of ideas and research
questions to be explored, that is, interesting
ideas that are not particularly well executed,
or gaps in the body of knowledge in a
discipline, thus identifying possibilities for
future research
LITERATURE REVIEW
, Why conduct a Literature Review?
A literature review enables critical analysis and
summary of existing research on a particular topic of
interest
• Important for scholarly research, support for
a research proposal or report
• can be a source of ideas and research
questions to be explored, that is, interesting
ideas that are not particularly well executed,
or gaps in the body of knowledge in a
discipline, thus identifying possibilities for
future research
