What is a Literature Review and how does it work?

In her psychology classes, Katie often heard terms such as "review the literature" or" literature review." At first, she was a little confused by these terms. If she needed to conduct a literature review, did that mean she needed to look at novels with psychology related topics? Katie soon learn that in the academic world the term "literature" is often used to describe the collective body of scholarly works related to a topic. The literature usually consist of scholarly books or articles published in academic journals. When Katie was told she needed to review the literature, this meant she needed to find previously published scholarly works that were relevant to her topic. Katie learned that there are several reasons to conduct a literature review. First, looking at previously published sources help her to gather ideas or information related to her topic.

It helped to keep her up to date on current trends and major findings related to her interests and it helped her to develop new research questions. Katie found that she was usually required to include a literature review section whenever she wrote a research paper. In this part of her paper she would summarize previous research related to her topic and show how this was connected to her own research. Katie also learned that, in some cases, the term "literature review" is used to refer to a specific type of scholarly paper. In this case, the author does not usually conduct an original research experiment. Instead, the entire purpose of the paper is to summarize and analyze the literature on a topic. To sum up, in the academic world, "literature" is a term often used to refer to all the previous scholarly works on a topic. In a research paper, the literature review is a section of the paper with the author summarizes previous research that is relevant to the topic. While research papers usually contain literature reviews, a paper that is only a literature review is not usually considered a research paper.

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