how we can guide a new research student of under grad to read an article for literature review section ????????
HI Sadia,
To me the effective way to review an article for its literature review section is by reading the article's literature review section & asking the following questions:
1) How the literature provided is supporting the research problem that the researcher is researching? If a research problem / problem statement is called out without basing on literature reviewed or observation, it might not be appealing.
2) How the literature has provided some theoretical frameworks / theories to support the building of conceptual framework / research model (for quantitative research) - this is to evaluate whether the research model can stand the acid test of "floating" based on the previous sound theoretical frameworks. If literature review is not done thoroughly, the researcher might not discover some theoretical frameworks that s/he can "base" on to build his or her framework / model.
3) How much literature is reviewed to adopt / adapt some survey instrument / questionnaire (for quantitative research). Instead of developing his or her own survey instrument, the researcher should perform an in depth literature review so that not to re-invent the wheel on survey instrument.
4) How extensive some literature are cited in discussion section of the article - this is common when the research model produced different empirical results than expected in which the researcher needs to explain / support the actual unexpected results based on some supporting views / practices from literature reviewed.
In order to write good literature review section, a researcher needs to read a lot of articles, analyze / synthesize & summarize key information into a coherent literature. But sometimes I face the problem of forgetting those literature I'd reviewed. So I'd developed an Excel to track them for future analysis / synthesis & summary. If you want you can refer to this RG link to develop your own literature review catalog / tracker.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276920594_Template_for_Literature_Review_Catalog_%28can't_upload_as_Excel_hence_in_jpg%29?ev=prf_pub
Regards,
Fung
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thanks sir for your detail response will you guide when i am reading literature section of a published article to develop my understanding how should i read ........
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