Literature Review: A Significant Feature of Writing a Research Report

Azizur Rahman, Mohd Zulkifle, Md Khursid Alam Ansari, Sidra, Mohammad Aslam

Literature review, Research, sources, steps, feature.

Research is an objective-based, systemic, and rational approach to find the facts. The literature review plays a pivotal role in almost every operational steps of research. It clarifies the research field of the problem; provides the current state of knowledge, which guides the definite direction to study. It also points out the challenges, feasibilities, and suggests the best tools, technique, and methodology to achieve the objective of research. It does not only save time, money, and logistics of research but, also precise the study. Possible outcomes of the research could be predicted only after a proper literature review. The literature review must be concise, clear, critical, convincing, and contributive.  There are six basic elements of the literature review i.e. information about data collector, the time frame of data collection, source of data, method and purpose of its collection, and its finding. There are three types of sources – primary, secondary, and conceptual/theoretical. Primary sources are unfiltered whereas secondary sources are filtered.  A literature review minimizes the ambiguity of the study. Based on information collected through the literature review, the researcher becomes ready to deal with the difficulty and challenges of the study. The primary aim of this article was to provide information about the overall information of the topic. In this paper, significance and other characteristics of literature review are discussed.

https://doi.org/10.31871/WJRR.11.1.13