Literature Review assistance
Evaluate the literature of your topic to critique, evaluate, and interpret it for your research work. Developing a critical literature review for your PhD thesis is critical to establishing a correct research gap and thereby selecting correct research objectives. PhD Guidance provides complete assistance from searching for relevant sources/citations for literature review and also writing the chapter. Presented below are some steps on how to develop a literature review
Find a Topic
When you need to review literature for your thesis, it is important to find a topic first. This can be done while searching the existing literature. When you know the amount and relevance of your searched literature, you may tweak your topic by modifying or narrowing it down.
Locate and review literature
In this step, you should do a generic reading of your searched literature. This helps you in understanding more about the already covered topics, but also about those that have the scope of further investigation. You may also go through the linked theories and models that can be the basis of detailed research.
Establish the writing purpose
Identify the aim of writing a literature review. Most of the times, it is about tracing ethical, legal and political issues and other historical developments. You may also need this for judging the effectiveness of treatment or identifying the existing gaps in research.
Evaluate literature
To give due importance to critical and relevant results in your study, it is also essential to interpret and evaluate literature. When you discuss about your study topic, it is important to develop your discussion based on literature that is built on relevant theories.
Do literature synthesis
Based on your study’s design, framework and research model, it is required to synthesize your literature or group it. If there are any noticeable cracks, then those can be used to explore the research gap.
Develop the first draft
When you start writing the initial draft of your literature review, make sure you form meaningful headings and subheadings. Use your preferred or recommended professional citation style in a consistent manner. All relevant theories should also be developed properly.
Peer review the draft
After you prepare the first draft, get it peer-reviewed to remove plagiarism and unnoticed errors. Based on the peer review feedback, make appropriate changes to shape your work well.