Review of related literature is the annotation of available papers both published and unpublished that contain information or evidence related to the topic that a person proposes to research on. It is the use of ideas in the literature to defend your paper such as the methods used in the study. Actually, it is the important component of a research because it helps to identify the research problem and provides information that the research is already exist but need to have further studies.
A review of related literature should have information about the problem statement, the theories that explain the presence of the problem, the findings of the study and the recommendation for further study.
The following are the purpose of Review of Related Literature:
- It provides an overview to the literature about the research’s topic
- It offers insight into the theoretical, conceptual and background of the study
- It helps the researcher to gather reliable data and ideas to be use as guidelines to the research
- It helps to justify the research
- It shows that the research has been studied previously
- It allow the researcher to learn from previous study
- It outline the gaps in previous study
- It highlights mistakes in previous study
- It ensure that the propose research is not done previously or repeated
- It can a source of theoretical basis of the study
Sources for Review of Related Literature
- General References – indexes, reviews and abstract
- Primary Sources – research found on published journals
- Secondary Sources – books and encyclopedias