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Few Tips on Conducting a Literature Review

A literature review is a kind of work that has one purpose – to evaluate the critical issues that are done on a certain topic. The literature review is an integral part of many academic writings. You should be ready to prepare a good piece of work and meet all necessary requirements.

In order to make the process of writing a literature review easier for you, we have made an attempt and created the list of questions after answering to which you will be able to start writing a literature review.

So, you have several books that serve as good sources for writing this paper. Now, you should decide why these literature sources are important and what concrete functions they perform.

Answer these questions and use the received information in your literature review:

1.    Did the author of the book state the problem in a necessary and clear way?
2.    Is it possible to find more definite explanations of the problems in the other works written by the other authors?
3.    How does the orientation of the author’s research look like? Is it correct to your point of view?
4.    Is there connection between the theory and practice in the works of this author? Does this approach perfectly demonstrate the connection?
5.    In what way does the author present the argument? Is it structured?
6.    Is this book is really connected to the research you are going to conduct? How exactly is this connection noticeable?

Now you have the necessary questions! Give the answers and start writing your literature review!