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The Purpose Of The Literature Review

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The Purpose Of The Literature Review So, although some people writing papers and essays do not understand the importance of it, literature review is crucial for the success of your work in general. Using it, you are providing your readers with ideas and literature that are considering the subject that you are studying throughout the paper, and then giving your perspective on the research that has been done. It should justify the research and explain how the study has been conducted previously, while still showing people that your concrete paper will be significant when it comes to subject being analyzed.

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Importance of a Good Literature Review

1. Literature review has few purposes. In our opinion the main one would be connecting your ideas and perspectives to other opinions in that subject area. So, although your ideas and research should be in the center of the paper that you are writing, literature review embeds the relevance and importance of your study, by showing the previous work that has been done.

2. Also, when writing an article or a research study paper you

should be asking yourselves to what audience are you writing and if they are as informed on the subject as you are.

The likely answer is that they are not, so use literature review to explain them main terminology and show them the essential details, in order that they understand the rest of your paper without further issues.Here choosing the right topic for literature review place a huge role.

3. Still, choose only relevant and essential material and references, and try to present the topic in an unbiased manner, as the whole point of your work is expressing your own opinion, and not making a ton of citations to others.

4. You should also be using literature review to connect a theoretical framework to the subject area you are researching, and to define the models and methods that other have been using doing the same.

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Choosing Literature Review Topics

To some this part might look pretty easy, and they might ask why are we even writing about this, but we have to disagree. The main reason of literature reviews that are not satisfying the expectations is the wrong choice of topic. So, it is pretty important to take extra time and sort out all the lit review topic ideas that you have in you had. The best way of doing that is to select a wide category in the subject area you are researching and acknowledge standards that literature review topics have to satisfy. In our opinion, in order to pick out of few topics for literature review, it would be good if you compared which is the most interesting, best covered and most audible for the audience you are presenting your work to. The topic

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that can satisfy all three standards should be the one that you are going to use. Another important thing when writing a paper is to have a good outline for literature review. It should be no longer than few words, but yet able to concisely present the points that you want to make. If you have a really hard time choosing out few topics for literature reviews, you can ask for lit review help that a lot of websites are offering nowadays!