Parts of Literature Review
The literature review is normally a section of some academic assignment (such as research paper or PhD dissertation), which introduces readers to the previous researches on the topic. It also helps to emphasize the significance of the research.
The literature review has to contain some basic components.
The literature review has to begin with the formulation of the problem which you are researching, and pointing the field of science which is covered by your research.
The next part of the literature review has to describe briefly the previous researches on the related topics, and list the most significant of their results.
Then the time of the analysis and of the evaluating of the data which you have found comes. You have to fix the achievements of the previous researches, and to point the direction for the future investigations.
Finally, you should conclude your work and write a brief summary of you literature review.
The literature review is divided into parts, but it does not mean that you have to write each part of your review separately. The division is relative. It was created in order to help you to organize and structure your literature review. There is no division, indeed. Of course, you had better devoted a separate paragraph to each part of your review in order not to confuse your readers, and to put clearer the idea. But there should not be any special division, such as headings for each part of the review. The literature review has to be presented as the integral text.