Research: RRL, Chapter 2, Lesson 7

Chapter 1 Components

• Chapter 1 contains 6 components for research studies
• This includes the rationale, problem statement, conceptual framework, significance, scope/delimitations, and definition of terms.

Chapter 2 / Lesson 7: Review of Related Literature (RRL) Objectives

• RRL includes the definition, how to differentiate sources and the steps to write it, and it's value as the backbone of the research study

Key Questions related to RRL

• What is RRL?
• What is the difference between RRL and Related Research Studies (RRS)?
• Why is RRL important?
• What citation styles should be used?
• How many RRL should be used?
• Where can RRL be found?
• How can RRL be written?

RRL Helps With

• Theoretical Framework
• Conceptual Framework
• Identifying the Research Gap
• Validity of the research problem

Challenges of RRL

• Finding relevant information for research.
• Finding updated research is difficult to find sometimes
• It can be a time consuming part of research

Literature Review

• A Literature Review's purpose, types, and how to select what you want

Definition of Terms

• The definition of terms are important to be defined

Related Literature

• This includes published information like books, journals, articles and other academic sources that will provide valuable information, insights and general information

Related Studies

• Helps serve as a reference for methodology, findings and study recommendations

Difference between Related Literature and Related Studies

• Related literature consists of published materials which provide background knowledge.
• Related studies serves as a reference, allowing researchers to compare their research with existing ones

Theoretical Framework

• Involves theories and principles that support the study

Conceptual Framework

• Framework illustrates how the study is structured.
• This is often presented as a diagram or model.

Research Gap

• Research Gap highlights what has not been studied yet and justifies how the study is necessary

Synthesis of Literature and Studies

• Researchers summarize and integrate the literature and studies they have reviewed
• This helps create a strong foundation for the studys goals and hypothesis

Literature

• Literature is an oral or written record of significant human experiences conveyed in a prosaic or artistic manner

Literature Review / Review of Related Literature (RRL)

• RRL is a process of identifying, locating, organizing, and analyzing information about a research topic

Literature Review / Review of Related Literature (RRL)

• This requires a survey of scholarly articles and books that are later summarized, enumerated, and evaluated

Purpose of Reviewing Literature

• Provides information about past research studies.
• Presents gaps in current research field.
• Lends confidence and authority to researchers.
• Enumerates findings from previous studies that support the present study.
• Provides information about methods and data use.
• Provides ideas about how implications may be drawn out of analysis and interpretation

Characteristics of RRL

• Relevance
• Recency
• Sufficiency

Styles/Approaches of RRL

Traditional Review of Literature

• Intended to summarize present knowledge on a subject

Different Types of Traditional Reviews

• Conceptual - analysis of concepts on world issues
• Critical - examine results of hypothesis on various situations
• State of the Art - latest research reviews
• Expert - utilizes a well-known expert
• Scoping - prepares a research situation for future work

Systematic Review of Literature

• This RRL style involves sequential acts for review of other related fields

Selecting the Literature for a Study

• Ask is clear delimitation of your study present?
• Ask are essential variables properly presented and insightful??
• Ask is the literature up-to-date?
• Ask does the provided literature accurately show results/conclusions?
• Ask does this present opposing ideas to help identify research gaps?

Conducting a Review

• Decide on area to search
• Search for literature
• Find relevant excerpts in books/articles

Four Types of Reading

• Elementary: Sentence comprehension/Word-recognition
• Systematic: Skimming to focus on highlighted terms
• Analytic: Requires the researcher to break scholarly work into parts
• Comparative: Analyzes two or more scholarly works

How to Code Literature

• Tools for reading and review:
• Highlighting: Use marks to revisit important ideas in scholarly work
• Annotation: Use written remarks of phrases and sentences that reflect understanding of scholarly work

Conceptual Schema

• Created in table form with rows "Study 1, Study 2, etc." and columns "Source, Problem or Purpose, Design, Sample, Methods, Instruments, Findings"

Writing a Literature Review

• Introduction: Discusses research problem and significance
• Body: Includes narratives of relevant thoughts and data to support research problem
• Synthesis: Ties main ideas together, overall view
• Bibliography: Full bibliography of the sources with the format depending on writing style

Kinds of Sources

General References

• First accessed sources of information: research articles, journals, books, conference proceedings, and documents
• Example: Current Index of Journals in Education

Primary Sources

• Contains direct findings communicated to readers
• Provides first-hand information from researcher publications
• Example: Academic and research journals published by universities

Secondary Sources

• Summaries or interpretations of research
• Written by those that describe another researchers work
• Example: Textbooks and single-authored books

Tertiary Sources

• Synthesizes and explains the work of others
• Consists of books and articles based on secondary sources

Writing the Review of Related Literature

Introduction

• This discusses briefly the research problem and the significance of the study

Body

• This contains a narrative of relevant ideas and findings to support the research problem

Synthesis

• How the synthesis ties together the main points review

Bibliography

• Provides full bibliographic information of all sources
• The format depends on the writing style adopted in the report.