How to write the review of the literature?

Most probably the second chapter of the project should present the analysis of the literature relevant to the topic. This chapter is perhaps the easiest to describe and the most difficult of the chapters to write. The analysis of the literature is one of the crucial demonstrations of sophistication beyond the thesis level. 

Approaches such as “shotgun” methods to the literature which simply present summaries of articles, with occasional critiques, and interspersed with periodic summaries are completely unacceptable at the senior or graduate level. Your analysis of the literature should make it extremely evident to anyone who reads the project that you not only have a grasp of the background materials and related literature but that you are aware of the problems in the literature and the strong and weak points. 

Summary and Overview of Remaining Chapters 

This section of chapter one should accomplish two goals; first, it should summarize the content of chapter one and second, it should describe the general arrangement and content of the following chapters. Typically, this section of chapter one is one paragraph in length. 

Review of the Literature 

Before launching into an explanation of the organization of Chapter Two, clarification of terms will be helpful. The phrases “review the literature” and “review of the literature” is sometimes used in the sense of a verb indicating an action taken, and at other times used in the sense of a noun reflecting the document produced The student must perform the action of going to the library, searching for relevant  Abstracts, or any other relevant database, obtaining the pertinent journal articles or books and reading them before formulating the research idea. 

This is the review of the literature in the verb sense. The student most likely will not produce the second chapter of the. Proposal/project (the review of the literature in the noun sense) until a much later date. It is the latter use of the term, the document, that this manual will address momentarily, following the next clarification of terms. 

Chapter Two, the written review of my literature, is generally thought to be the largest unit of work in the production of the project. 

Some students become confused about the difference between “doing research” and “conducting the review” of the literature,’ This confusion is understandable since pass assignments to do “research papers” meant the student was to conduct a review of the literature and write a paper which seems very similar to what is expected in Chapter Two. But doing the review of the literature is not research in the context of a project or thesis. In the project research, the student is expected to gather new and original information. The project research is data collection that comes from observations, interviews, etc.; it is not the literature review rally thought to be the largest unit of work in the production of a project. It is a challenge in discrimination, critical thinking, and organization. The organization will be addressed first. 

A thesis or project is required to be a new and original contribution to the field. If this belief is true, then project students are required to do the impossible. Many people meet this challenge by combining old ideas (concepts) in new ways.