A literature review can merely be a summary of relevant sources, but in the social sciences, it frequently follows an organizational structure and incorporates both summary and synthesis, often within specified conceptual categories. A synopsis is a re-organization, or reshuffling, of that information in a way that tells how you plan to examine a research topic, whereas a synthesis is a re-organization, or reshuffling, of that information in a manner that tells how you intend to address the research problem.
The features of a literature review might:
Reinterpret old content in a fresh way, or blend new and old views. Follow the field's cognitive growth, including significant debates. Evaluate the sources and advise the reader on the most topical or relevant research, depending on the circumstances, or Discover where gaps exist in how a subject has been researched to date, probably at the end of a literature review.
The purpose of a literature review is to:
Place each piece of work in the perspective of how it contributes to a better understanding about the research subject at hand.
Explain how each work relates to others under discussion.
Determine new approaches to interpreting previous studies..
Any gaps in the research should be revealed..
Resolve discrepancies between previously published findings that appear to be contradictory.
Lead the way in addressing a need for more research
Place your own study in the context of previous studies.
Types Of Literature Reviews
Argumentative Review: This method reads literature deliberately in order to support or reject a pre-existing argument, deeply ingrained belief, or philosophical difficulty. The goal is to create a corpus of work that creates a counter-intuitive stance. Argumentative techniques to assessing the literature can be a valid and valuable kind of discourse, considering the value-laden nature of some social science studies. However, when they are used to make summarized assertions like those found in systematic reviews, they can create bias issues.
Historical Review: Few things exist without reference to the past. Historical literature reviews examine study over time, often beginning with the earliest appearance of an issue, concept, theory, or phenomenon in the literature and tracking its history within a discipline's scholarship. The goal is to set research in a historical perspective in order to demonstrate knowledge with current advances and to indicate potential research directions ahead.
Integrative Review: Reviewing, critiquing, and synthesizing representative literature on a topic in an integrative way in order to produce new ideas and viewpoints on the topic is considered a type of research. All studies that tackle related or identical hypotheses or research difficulties are included in the amount of literature. In terms of clarity, rigor, and reproducibility, a very well integrative review satisfies the same standards as basic research. In the social scientists, this is the most prevalent type of review.
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