Practical Research Presentation
Practical Research Presentation
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PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1
Quarter 1 – Module 4:
“Learning from Others and
Reviewing the Literature”
Learning Competencies
At the end of this module, you are
expected to;
• Select relevant literature
• Cite related literature using standard style
• Synthesize information from relevant
literature
• Write coherent review of literature
• Follow ethical standards in writing related
literature
• Presents written review of literature
Discovering truths about a particular topic requires
speculative thinking. Discussion
Through curiosity, you tend to have
many questions in your mind about your topic. Then, you
begin to search for answers of your questions from
people’s ideas, written facts and information about your
target topic.
Aligning what you already knew with what others
knew or have already done about your chosen topic
indicates the timeliness and relevance of your work.
Moreover, reading extensively about your subject matter
enables you to obtain rich background knowledge that will
help you establish a good foundation or direction of your
research work.
Review of Related Literature (RRL) discusses
published information in a particular subject area, and
sometimes information in a particular subject area within
a certain time period (Ramdhani, A., Ramdhani, M., &
Amin, A.,2014). It is a survey of scholarly articles, books
and other sources relevant to a particular issue, area of
research, or theory, and by so doing, providing a
description, summary, and critical evaluation of these
works (libguides.usc.edu, n.d.). It describes the content
and quality of knowledge already available, and readily
presents the reader the significance of previous work
(Okoli & Schabram, 2010).
Traditional Review of Literature
Ridley (2008) identified the styles or approaches of RRL to
be applied in conducting research study. The Traditional Review
of Literature which summarize present forms of knowledge on a
specific subject and aims to give a new understanding of an
existing work. It expects you to state your intentions in
conducting the review and to name the sources of information
and it provides a concise summary of information and data
findings that describe current knowledge and facts that offers a
rationale for conducting future researchers. (Ridley, 2008).
An important area of a literature review is an
understanding of a gap. It is an important research
question relevant to a given domain that has not been
answered adequately or at all in existing peer-reviewed
scholarship. The gap will hopefully ensure that the
research will likely have valuable practical and theoretical
implications.
The Different Types of
Traditional Review
1. Conceptual Review – Analysis of concepts or ideas to give
meaning to some national or world issues.
2. Critical Review – focuses on theories or hypotheses and
examines meanings and results of their application to situations.
3. State-of-the-Art Review – makes the researcher deal with the
latest research studies on the subject.
4. Expert Review– encourages a well-known expert to do the RRL
because of the influence of a certain ideology, paradigm, or belief on
him.
5. Scoping Review – prepares a situation for a future research
work in the form of project making about community development,
government policies, and health services, among others.
Systemic Review of Literature
As indicated by its name “systemic” which means methodical.
It’s a style of RRL that involves sequential acts of a review of related
literature. Unlike traditional review that has no particular method.
Here are the steps in doing Systemic Review of Literature (Ridley,
2012):
1. Have a clear understanding of the research questions.
2. Plan your manner of obtaining the data.
3. Do the literature search.
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.
5. Determine the methodological soundness of the research studies.
6. Summarize what you have gathered from various sources of data.
A systemic review of literature is a rigorous way of
obtaining data from written works. It is a bias-free style that
the researcher wanting to be a research expert should
experience. This is vital for students undergoing literature
review. It should be done in a systematic way ensuring that
they search for relevant texts on their topic. Identifying the
literature that will address students review question that
initially students must develop a strategy to articulate the
focus of literature that will seek to answer their questions.
What is Meta-analysis in Relation to
RRL?