Review of Related Literature

It is a critical evaluation of sources related to the research topic.

• analysis

• conclusion

• introduction

• synthesis

It contains literature coming from books, journals and other forms of material relevant to the study but are non-empirical materials both from foreign and local sources.

• conceptual literature

• research literature

It is empirically based, like scientific paper, theses and dissertations, both published and unpublished from foreign and local sources.

• conceptual literature

• research literature

It is not an original source, has no direct physical connection to the person or event being studied.

• primary source

• secondary source

• tertiary source

These are sources that abstract, organize, compile or digest other sources.

• primary source

• secondary source

• tertiary source

These are original sources of information that have not yet been filtered through analysis, examination or interpretation.

• primary source

• secondary source

• tertiary source

It provides scholarly or societal context and identifies the overall state of knowledge.

• analysis

• conclusion

• introduction

• synthesis

It reinforces the research purpose and establishes the importance of your proposed research relative to the current state of knowledge.

• analysis

• conclusion

• introduction

• synthesis

Its primary aim is to present facts in reasonably objective manner.

• argument synthesis

• explanatory synthesis

Its purpose to present own point of view with the support of relevant facts presented in logical manner.

• argument synthesis

• explanatory synthesis