Ragad moufaq Tawafak, remember that LR is the most difficult part in a thesis.... The variables including the items or factors you derived must be justified and linked with each other with theoretical support. However, you can divide your LR into three parts:

1. Conceptual LR

2. Theoretical LR

3. Empirical LR.

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Yes, it is helpful for others if you explain your situation.

Look at the theory that you use in your study, find out if these factors are specific concepts/ideas that can be derived from the theory. After doing this, look at the review of related literature and studies and link your identified factors to what are being told by the related studies/literature. From this link reflect whether your identiified factors are gaps or just repetitions to what is being told by the related studues/literature. if the factors are repitions tell why you need to repeat them in your study. If they are gaps then I must go and that is a good justification of doing your study.

Ragad moufaq Tawafak, remember that LR is the most difficult part in a thesis.... The variables including the items or factors you derived must be justified and linked with each other with theoretical support. However, you can divide your LR into three parts:

1. Conceptual LR

2. Theoretical LR

3. Empirical LR.

Thanks

I agree with the statement given by "Craig Refugio" which is very informative.....

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Thank you Mohammad Mizanur Rahman

Find empirical studies about the factors in question. Discuss the studies in terms of their context. Link the findings to your study context. Identify any gaps that your study, by way of methodology, could fill.

LR is to show what previous research has been done: you need to summarize the located studies in terms of (1) the research questions, (2) the sample, (3) the method, (4) the results, (5) the limitations (if you see them), and (5) their implications for your own study (e.g., what measures to take, etc.).

Organize the summaries according to the variables of your study and add your comments (critiques).

Keep a balance between what they said and your own views.

what are the measurement of your factors

@Ragad moufaq Tawafak, it sounds a bit as if you have already conducted the study and are now trying to go back to sure up the foundation. Rather, your study should be build upon and emerge from your thorough literature review. Perhaps I am misreading the situation, and you are are just hoping to study particular factors?

If this is the case, start by reading every paper you can find that deals even vaguely with those factors and the broader topic. Follow the references in all those papers, reading the cited papers thoroughly. Keep following the references until the cited papers are no longer relevant to your study.

For each relevant study, take note of the keywords listed. After you have exhausted your chain of references, return to the databases and begin searching again using the newly identified keywords to begin the reference chain process again.

For each article your read, take extensive notes in your EndNote (or what ever citation program you use) library. Make sure to record direct quotes with page numbers for any passage you think you might want to use verbatim so you don't have to go back to the article later.

Once you have examined all articles thoroughly and exhausted all reference chains, put your notes aside. Sit down with your word processor and just write. At this stage, do not worry about citations. You are synthesizing all you read during your literature review. Once you have written coherent ideas, do back to your EndNote library and add the citations that support your claims. Go through what you have written sentence by sentence and ask yourself where you got that idea. Add a citation for each source. Only add a direct quote if the original author said it better than you could.

This is the process I have successfully used in my writing. I wish you all the best in your academic writing.

Pam

In my opinion, LR is a rigorous exercise. Its major aim is to help the researcher better understand his/her research study. Therefore, he/she needs to read widely and broadly all sources of information related to the study, then start linking the same with the constructs/factors of the research area. Let it be a conversation between or among previous studies eg A explains this...however, B has a different opinion, C introduces a different idea, however, the researcher adds....(either new phenomenon or improved version of it)..... all this conversation must be supported by literature.

Yes, you must explain why you selected such constructs because you want to derive something new, or to validate a theory or add an item to a model...

Thank you friends.

Under no circumstances should you rely on keywords on the Internet that then lead to any network libraries. You have to know the originals and all the background literature.

I believe the LR should capture the conceptual review, empirical review, theoretical review and conceptual framework

Of course, first you make summaries of the reviewed articles. the you make a summary of the summaries. Add your learning points (what they suggest to you in terms of concepts, measures, and findings) and your criticisms (things you don't quite agree or doubts, or alternative interpretation). Points out what they suggest you do for your own study.

Thank you all.