Dissertation Literature Review
admin March 3rd, 2008
Dissertation literature review is a thorough analysis of the literature sources you used as a means of research. A good dissertation literature review should show that you have analyzed and synthesized information and presented its results the way you see it.
First of all you just have to find the sources. Get to know who and how described the problem you are analyzing. The more sources will you use, the better literature review will you write.
Then you have to read them. What you actually should to do is to extract the most essential information – what each author thinks about the problem, what is already proved by practical investigations. You may also provide the writer’s assumptions on the problem that cannot be explained by theory.
Imagine a certain picture of the state of the problem nowadays. Are there any controversies? Are there enough evidences to support this theory or it needs additions? Are there any questions that have not been investigated yet but worth investigating? Which of them are of the primary importance, which ones are of the secondary?
What you should do next is to identify the issues which are debatable. State each of the points of view on these issues. Why do researchers have different positions in relation to this very issue?
You paper should be well organized in accordance with the research question that you are developing. Do not write your literature review by the whole text, divide it into paragraphs.
Take the information presented into consideration if you want to write a good literature review.