Why Literature Review Is Important
You are working on your dissertation or thesis and have to write a literature review. Well, let me guess: it is the most boring and, perhaps, disgusting task for you, and you absolutely do not understand why you should do it if there is no necessity in it. At least, if I were you, I would have similar thoughts in my mind. Let me convince you in necessity of writing a literature review and explain you why it is important.
Every topic on every study has a certain pre-history. Researchers always try to find something new for investigation. Sometimes they just touch upon the problems but do not disclose them in their works. Someone just has to disclose these problems through their investigation. Can you guess who can be this person? It will be you, of course.
As soon as you start working on the topic chosen, you are becoming a part of the whole scientific world. So, now it is your duty to participate in discussion upon the problems found within certain research area. Besides, it is rather interesting to realize that you are becoming a researcher yourself, isn’t it?
So, writing a dissertation or thesis literature review serves for revealing the hidden ideas that already exist in science. You can call it a kind of your mission – to reveal these issues. You may be proud of yourself for becoming a researcher, for becoming a participant of the world discussion of the problems found within a certain area of research. Moreover, you make an attempt to solve this problem by yourself! Good luck with your attempts! Be sure, you WILL do it successfully!