How is a literature survey different from a literature review? What is the standard procedure to conduct a literature survey without making it a literature review?
I agree - a literature review is in-depth and includes critical commentary on the literature and generally has a purpose such as providing a foundation to inform a research project.
If there is an actual difference between the "literature survey" and the "literature review," it's that the latter can serve as a paper in and of itself, and is much more extensive than a literature survey, which is typically a major part of the introduction of a research paper.
I've never actually come across the term 'literature survey'; but since you are using it, it must be 'out there'; however, I don't get the sense that both terms are referring to the same thing, even if some people use them interchangeably.
A literature review is an author's critical understanding of existing literature in some field, set down, as Guillermo says above, as an introduction to a research paper; not just an 'A says this, and B say this' exercise, but rather,, an author's understanding of the integrated core of the literature reviewed, usually as a preamble for the author's new paper to address a perceived research gap.
Note of course, that one will come across papers in which the literature review is not exhaustive; so I'm thinking that the term 'literature survey' is best kept for this more superficial---but still useful---exercise
I agree - a literature review is in-depth and includes critical commentary on the literature and generally has a purpose such as providing a foundation to inform a research project.
Sir Philip Adams, the main motivation of my question is to differentiate between the review articles and survey articles..Its a bit confusing for me.Kindly guide me about the procedures of writing these articles..
Thanks Guillermo Rivera and Robyn Munford for your valuable comments.
Literature survey" and the "literature review, usually there is no clear diffrence between them. But in my opinion, literature survey is covering the previous works and shows the strengths and weakness of each one. While, literature review shows the research gap and highlights the required future works.
I think Literature review is more about related work to the technique which you are inventing, while survey is covering wide spectrum of research which may not relate to your technique.
Review- Collection of large numbers of relevant papers, highlights the key points of those collected papers and comment on weaknesses and strength. Simply, story writing based on the collected papers.
Survey- Collect relevant papers , and summarizes those papers. The surveys presents understanding of the authors on those papers and presents the thoughts of the authors. Thus, author can also augment their thoughts.
Literature Survey: Is the process of analyzing, summarizing, organizing, and presenting novel conclusions from the results of technical review of large number of recently published scholarly articles. The results of the literature survey can contribute to the body of knowledge when peer-reviewed and published as survey articles
Literature Review: Is the process of technically and critically reviewing published papers to extract technical and scientific metadata from the presented contents. The metadata are usually used during literature survey to technically compare different but relevant works and draw conclusions on weaknesses and strengths of the works.
Khan,
with Kalaiarasi's above post in mind, I think that both literature survey and literature review will have sections on introduction / research question(s) / literature search procedure (methodology) / findings / conclusion / discussion; but simply, the literature review will be more in-depth than the literature survey.
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