The Review Process

Question 1

Rewriting the literature regarding your narrow topic (David Taylor, 2010)

Answer 1

Literature review

Question 2

Taking snapshots, capturing the major concepts of your topic & showing their relationships

Answer 2

Literature review

Question 3

Process of compiling, classifying, & evaluating what other researchers have written on certain topics

Answer 3

Literature review

Question 4

Purpose of Literature Review

Answer 4

1. It improves your understanding on the topic
2. To update your readers on your topic
3. It makes your research study objective and empirical

Question 5

Types of Reading

Answer 5

• Elementary Reading
• Systematic Skimming
• Analytical Reading
• Comparative Reading

Question 6

Consists merely of recognizing the words and the literal comprehension of the sentences

Answer 6

Elementary Reading

Question 7

Articles/materials are discerned if they can be included for analysis

Answer 7

Systematic Skimming

Question 8

A process for breaking the whole into parts for better understaning

Answer 8

Analytic Reading

Question 9

Concepts & principles from various POVs and views of authors are compared and contrasted

Answer 9

Comparative Reading

Question 10

Conducting a lit. review

Answer 10

1. Looking for relevant materials
2. Actual Reading
3. Note-taking

Question 11

Use systematic skimming

Answer 11

Looking for relevant materials

Question 12

What type of reading should you use for the actual reading step of conducting a lit. review?

Answer 12

Use analytic and comparative reading

Question 13

Tools for reading and revew

Answer 13

1. Highlighting
2. Annotations