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Literature Review of Thesis

 Literature Review of Thesis

Literature Review of Thesis

How to write Literature Review of Thesis

Are you anxious to know how to write literature review of thesis? If yes, then you are at the right place. Firstly, you should know what literature review is and what are the sources of literature review.

Literature review:

Literature review is the current knowledge on a topic.

Following are secondary and primary sources of literature review:

Sources of Literature review:

       scholarly journals

       scholarly books

      authoritative databases

      newspapers

      magazines,

       other books

      films

      and audio and video tapes

      research reports

      government documents

      abstracts

      reviews

      unpublished thesis

While writing literature review of your thesis, you must keep these things in your mind:

·         Search for relevant content.

·         read journals and articles related to your thesis.

·         It should convey to your reader what knowledge and ideas have been established on that specific topic

·         It should convey to your reader its strengths and weaknesses.

·         Use relevant books, journals, published and unpublished thesis for writing literature review.

·         Do selective reading

·         Look at the table of contents

·         Look at abstracts and summaries of articles to see their relevance.

·         Remember to cite recent articles and thesis.

·         Copy all selected data for literature review with references.

·         Rephrase it carefully and proof read it.

·         Organize it in headings and sub headings.

·         Provide correct in text citations in literature review.

·         critically analyses the literature review and save these thoughts for writing conclusion.

Here is an example of literature review:

Teaching is a socially responsible profession which is highly responsible and

administrative, challenging intellectually, emotionally and physically, (Sachs, 2003), and

exhaustive and unrelenting. Although hired to teach, teachers are engaged in a

wide variety of responsibilities which are additional to face-to-face teaching. Systems appear to

be demanding more and more of teachers. These extra responsibilities include: curriculum

design and development; school planning; marketing, community relations; information technology; workplace health and wellbeing; resource management; student welfare; along with playground and sports management (ACE, 2001). Teachers are also finding it gradually difficult to meet the needs of students with a wider range of abilities subsequent from inclusion policies that have seen the number of students with disabilities in mainstream classrooms (Buckingham 2003, p.11).

 

 

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