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Process of Selecting Related Literature

The document outlines the process of selecting related literature for a literature review. It discusses the meaning and purposes of a literature review, including relating the study to prior work and expanding or disproving past findings. It describes systematically searching literature using keywords, determining relevance, and assessing methodological soundness. The sources discussed include general references, primary sources, and secondary sources like peer-reviewed articles and unpublished works. Pointers are given to choose closely related previous studies and consider expertise and use of primary data.

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Process of Selecting Related Literature

The document outlines the process of selecting related literature for a literature review. It discusses the meaning and purposes of a literature review, including relating the study to prior work and expanding or disproving past findings. It describes systematically searching literature using keywords, determining relevance, and assessing methodological soundness. The sources discussed include general references, primary sources, and secondary sources like peer-reviewed articles and unpublished works. Pointers are given to choose closely related previous studies and consider expertise and use of primary data.

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Process of Selecting

Related Literature
Learning Objective
 To describe the process of
selecting related literature
Key Understanding
 Knowledge of the process of selecting
related literature is important to properly
carry out a review of related literature.

Key Question
 What is the process of selecting related
literature?
Meaning of Review of Related Literature
 A review of related literature (RRL) is an analysis of man’s
written or spoken knowledge of the world.
 You examine representations of man’s thinking about the
world to determine the connection of your research with
what people already know about it.
 In your analysis or reading of recorded knowledge, you
just do not catalog ideas in your research paper, but also
interpret them or merge your thinking with the author’s
ideas.
 Hence, in doing the RRL, you deal with both formal or
direct and informal or indirect expressions of man’s
knowledge.
Purposes of Review of Related Literature (RRL)
1. To obtain background knowledge of your research
2. To relate your study to the current condition or situation of
the world.
3. To show the capacity of your research work to introduce
new knowledge
4. To expand, prove, or disprove the findings of previous
research studies
5. To increase your understanding of the underlying theories,
principles, or concepts of your research
Purposes of Review of Related Literature (RRL)
6. To explain technical terms involved in your research study.
7. To highlight the significance of your work with the kind of
evidence it gathered to support the conclusion of your
research.
8. To avoid repeating previous research studies.
9. To recommend the necessity of further research on a
certain topic.
Systematic Review of
Related Literature
1. Have a clear understanding of the research questions.
Serving as the compass to direct your research
activities, the research questions tell you what to collect
and where to obtain those data you want to collect.
2. Plan your manner of obtaining the data. Imagining how
you will get to where the data are, you will come to think
also of what keywords to use for easy searching and
how to accord courtesy and respect to people or
institutions from where the data will come such as
planning how to communicate your request to these
sources of data.
Systematic Review of
Related Literature
3. Do the literature search. Using keywords, you look for
the needed information from all sources of knowledge:
Internet, books, journals periodicals, government
publications, general references, and the like.

4. Using a certain standard, determine which data, studies,


or sources of knowledge are valuable or not to warrant
the reasonableness of your decision to take some data
and junk the rest.
Systematic Review of
Related Literature
5. Determine the methodological soundness of the
research studies. Use a checklist or a certain set of
criteria in assessing the ways researchers conduct their
studies to arrive at a certain conclusion.

6. Summarize what you have gathered from various


sources of data. To concisely present a synthesis of your
report, use a graph such as a table and other
presentation formats that are not prone to verbosity.
Process of Selecting Related Literature
 There are three basic types of literature sources:
general references that will direct you to the location of
other sources; primary sources that directly report or
present a person’s own experiences; and secondary
sources that report or describe other people’s
experiences or worldviews.
 Secondary sources of knowledge give the most number
of materials such as the Internet, books, peer-reviewed
articles in journals, published literary reviews of a field,
grey literature or unpublished and non-peer reviewed
materials like theses, dissertations, conference
proceedings, leaflets and posters, research studies in
progress, and other library materials.
Process of Selecting Related Literature
 Websites introducing materials whose quality depends
solely on every individual, social media networks
(Twitter, Facebook, blogs, podcasts, YouTube, video,
etc.) and other online encyclopedia such as Wikipedia,
are the other sources of information that you can consult
during this stage.
 You may find these reading materials valuable because
of their timeliness, diversified knowledge or information,
varied presentation formats (texts, sounds, animation)
and 24-hour availability. But they are not as dependable
as the other sources of knowledge. It is susceptible to
anybody’s penchant for editing.
Process of Selecting Related Literature
• You can have an access to these various sources of data
in two methods: manually, or getting hold of the printed
form of the material, and electronically or having a
computer or online reading of the sources of knowledge.
• Regardless of which method you use, all throughout your
literature search, your mind must be focused on the
essence and purposes of the library because most of the
data you want to obtain are in this important section of
your school.
• Having familiarity with the nature of your library will
facilitate your literature search.
Pointers in Selecting Related Literature

1. Choose previous research findings that are


closely related to your research.

2. Give more weight to studies done by people


possessing expertise or authority in the field of
knowledge to which the research studies belong.
Pointers in Selecting Related Literature

3. Consider sources of knowledge that refer more


to primary data than to secondary data.

4. Prefer getting information from peer-reviewed


materials than from general reading materials.

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