business integrated project(4-5 pages)

Writing a Literature Review ... When writing a Lit Rev, you need to understand its functions , i.e. a Lit Rev - helps to justify the research topic and questions you have chosen

- helps to ascertain the importance of the topic

- provides background information relevant to your study

- demonstrates that you are familiar with the research topic

- ideally sets your research as part of the chain of research in the field

- is selective in which literature to include – according to its relevance to the

research questions

- should adopt the funnel approach of starting out wide and narrowing quickly

towards the specific research questions

Sources that make up the ‘literature’ under review include:

• journal articles

• monographs

• computerized databases

• conferences proceedings

• empirical studies

• government reports and reports from other bodies

• statistical handbooks.

Questions that should guide your Lit Rev are:

• What has been done in your field of research?

• How are you going to order your discussion? Chronological, thematic,

conceptual, methodological, or a combination?

• What section headings will you use?

• How do the various studies relate to each other? What precise

contribution do they make to the field? What are their limitations?

• How does your own research fit into what has already been done?