Educational Research

When you plan to write a literature review you need to identify themes, debates, and gaps, so you you can look for:

• trends and patterns (in theory, method or results): do certain approaches become more or less popular over time.

• themes: what questions or concepts recur across the literature.

• debates, conflicts and contradictions: where sources disagree.

• all of the above are correct .

In order to build a literature, review you should do

the following actions, what is the sequence for them to happen?

• critically evaluate, summarize and synthesize, analyze and interpret, write in well-structured paragraphs

• analyze and interpret, summarize and synthesize, critically evaluate, write in well-structured paragraphs

• Summarize and synthesize, analyze and interpret, critically evaluate, write in well-structured paragraphs

• Summarize and synthesize, critically evaluate, analyze and interpret, write in well-structured paragraphs

When evaluating and selecting sources for your literature review, you need to focus on

• the innovative approaches or methods defined

• key concepts and the way they are they defined

• questions or problems the author does not address in the source

• the recommendations it provides

Choose the correct statement about the literature review

• It is a list of paragraphs usually started with the name of the cited researcher

• A literature review is a list describing or summarizing one piece of literature after another.

• It is a list of all the material published, according to the guiding concept of your thesis or research question

• The literature review needs to be organized into sections that present themes or identify trends, including relevant theory

A good literature review _____

• Is a summary in which the investigator analyzes sources, synthesizes contents, and briefly evaluates sources.

• Is a summary of some sources, the investigator, analyzes, synthesizes, and critically evaluates so, a clear picture of the state of knowledge on the subject is given.

• Is a summary in which you synthesize sources in order to give a clear picture of the sources read.

• Is a review of many evaluated sources that gives information of the state of knowledge on the subject.