Transcript Dr Jamal Roudaki Faculty of Commerce Lincoln University New Zealand Literature Review 1. Why conduct a literature Review? 2.

Dr Jamal Roudaki
Faculty of Commerce
Lincoln University
New Zealand
Literature Review
1.
Why conduct a literature Review?
2. Where do I find the research literature?
3. Importance of citations.
4. How to conduct a systematic review?
5. How to arrange a suitable data base (documentation)
6. How to use literature review
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Why conduct a literature review
 Goals and objectives
 Familiarity with body of knowledge in the research area
 Establish credibility of the research project
 Reveal path of prior research to link with your research
 Integrating and summarizing prior findings
 Learn from other research projects (methodology,
results limitations, usefulness)
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Why conduct a literature review
 Important points:
 Your research topic (question) is the main and
 Literature review only assists in defining your research
problem to be:
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Comprehensive
Researchable
Not duplicating
 A sound literature review reveals sources of
data that you was not aware of
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What are the benefits of Literature Review
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Prove that you are aware of:
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The research in the area
increases a reader’s confidence about your professional
competence, ability and background
Demonstrates relevance of research project by
making connections to a body of knowledge
Elaborate on agree and or disagree in previous
research results
Built on pervious research and find future direction
Identifies gaps and suggests hypotheses for further
study
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Few points:
 Do a systematic Review
 Evaluate and interpret all available research evidence relevant to your
research question/s
 Include all relevant and valid papers and research results
 Sources should be reliable (scientific)
 Look for (be critical):
 Details of methods
 Results of studies
 Presentation
 Methodology used to extract results
 Review strategy and sources
 Study selection criteria
 Quality assessment criteria
 Data extraction procedure/data synthesis/time frame
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Where to Look for Literature
 Scholarly journals, books, dissertations,
government documents, policy reports, presented
papers.
 Use data bases (Internet – use search engines)
 Use the library
 Online catalogues of libraries
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Documentation
 When reviewing literature:
 Be systematic in collection of literature
 Record all literature
 Use a consistence method of collecting literature
 Computer packages for referencing (Reference Manager or
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Endnote)
Data bases provide citation
Keep all piece of work that you read (suitable filing system)
File by subject matter/theme
Even keep not relevant piece of work that you read
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Citation
Make a
complete
citation:
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• Authors’ names, year of
publication, publisher, titles,
chapter titles and page numbers
• Never push referencing to the end
• Prepare citation as you go
• Use suitable citation in accordance
to university, or publisher rules
(Chicago, Harvard, APA etc).
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How to start
 When start to read:
 Have a clear purpose or goal in mind (why and what)
 Why I am reading the article
 What to learn from the article (set goals)
 When finish:
 What I learn
 How it is related to my research
 Shortcuts
 Read abstract, introduction and conclusions
 Check research mythology and results
 Evaluate as you read
 What do you already know about the topic
 Familiarity with methods
 Method and validity of citation
 Interpret what you read, don’t just give summaries
 Structure the evidence around your main research question
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Literature Review Points
 Be aware that you are reviewing the literature not
reproducing
 Identify good articles that really impressed (you may need
to read them again and again)
 Brainstorming
 What information do you need
 Describe in your own words the key aspects of research topic
 Important: Plan the literature review
 Key words (could be change as you go)
 Search engine/s (internet databases)
 Documentations
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Too Few / Too Many Sources
 Too Few:
 Topic is narrow
 Consult literature to revise topic
 Seek advice to expand you topic
 Too Many:
 Plan to scale your research down to manageable level
 Categorise sources
 Is there anything interesting but not necessarily critical
to your research
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Software
 EndNote
 Reference management software
 Once a reference is available in EndNote it can be added
into these writing or proposal with a couple of mouse
clicks
 Automatically inserting correctly formatted in-text and
reference list entries
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Thank You
Questions
Discussion
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