Literature Review

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This blog is in response to the task assigned by professor Dilip Barad sir as part of thinking activity in which we have to write about our understanding of the topic.

1)Define Literature Review

Basically Literature review is an account of what has been published on a particular topic or subject by accredited scholar and researchers.

2)Why literature review is carried out in research?

Purpose of Literature Review:-

If you don't know what research has been done in your research area then might be you see only those things or might you done only things which already done by somebody.  Literature Review is kind of research in which you have to find out gap between research which already has been done by somebody. 

Literature Review suggest that you have to stand on the shoulder of previous scholars and researchers, to prove your arguments.

In writing the literature review our purpose is to convey our readers that what knowledge and ideas have been established an a topic and what their strength and weaknesses are.

The Literature Review must be defined by a guiding concept of our objective, the problem or issues which we want to discuss in the dissertation or thesis. Basic purpose of literature review is to identify the gap between the literature or particular topic, to avoid reinventing the wheel and this will stop us from making same mistakes and save our time. To carry on from where other have already reached.

In short we can say that,

- To identify opposing views

- To put our work into perspective

- To demonstrate that you can access previous work in your area

- To Identify information and idea that may be relevant to your project

- To identify methods that could be relevant to your project.

Two important objective of LR:-

Information seeking:-

The ability to scan the literature efficiently,using manual or computerized methods to identify a set of useful articles and books.

Critical appraisal:-

The ability to apply principles of analysis to identify unbiased and valid studies.

If you are writing an annotated bibliography, you may need to summarize each item briefly, but should still follow through themes and concepts and do some critical assessment of material. Use an overall introduction and conclusion to state the scope of your coverage and to formulate the question, problem, or concept your chosen material illuminates. Usually you will have the option of grouping items into sections—this helps you indicate comparisons and relationships. You may be able to write a paragraph or so to introduce the focus of each section.

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