Literature Review: Meaning and Format by Andrew Oforma Eze
Literature Review Literature review is one of the most challenging parts students face in their research works. Some usually do not know where to start. This is due to lack of background knowledge on what literature review entails. This part is suppose to be the most interesting part because it is information seeking section if one understands what literature review revolves around.
First and foremost, understand that literature is the general name for printed materials (such as booklets, textbooks, novel, magazines, journals, leaflets, brochures, etc.) that provide information about something. As stated in the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2010), literature reviews are critical evaluations of material that has already been published. Hence, it is an act of examining some available works in order to critically know what other researchers have said on the topic you are researching on. In other words, it simply means stud...