It is not always necessary that analysis of methodology adopted by another researcher is useful. Before applying such methodology it is essential to determine the compatibility of the problem being investigated and the methodology proposed to be adopted.
Literature review is primarily conducted to know the research gap in the area in which you propose to work. The status of the work done by other researchers help you deciding what next you must perform in the said area.
No research work is therefore possible without extensive literature survey.
Dear Dr. Kusi Ankrah, it is an interesting question.
In the field of research, the term method represents the specific approaches and procedures that the researcher systematically utilizes that are manifested in the research design, sampling design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, and so forth. The literature review represents a method because the literature reviewer chooses from an array of strategies and procedures for identifying, recording, understanding, meaning-making, and transmitting information pertinent to a topic of interest. Moreover, as asserted by Onwuegbuzie, Leech, and Collins (2011), conducting a literature review is equivalent to conducting a research study, with the information that the literature reviewer collects representing the data
When the literature review stands alone (i.e., independent work), then the literature review represents a single research study that ends when the literature review process ends. In contrast, when the goal of the literature review is to inform primary research, then the literature review represents an embedded study. Therefore, essentially, all studies that contain a review of the literature, however large or small, actually involve the conduct of two studies: a study of the previous knowledge (i.e., review of the literature) and the primary research study conducted by the researcher(s)—with the literature review study being embedded within the primary research study.
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libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/literaturereview
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It is not always necessary that analysis of methodology adopted by another researcher is useful. Before applying such methodology it is essential to determine the compatibility of the problem being investigated and the methodology proposed to be adopted.
Literature review is primarily conducted to know the research gap in the area in which you propose to work. The status of the work done by other researchers help you deciding what next you must perform in the said area.
No research work is therefore possible without extensive literature survey.
It can also be very important in writing a concise empirical review of your research. Firstly, the methodologies adopted or employed in literature must be germane or relevant for your study for it to be even part of your literature review section in your research.
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