Purpose

The literature review is a critical look at the published research that is significant to the work that you are carrying out.

You need to evaluate other researchers' work, show the relationships between different work, and show how it relates to your own work.

Therefore, the literature review is not a collection of summaries of articles you have read.

Here are some of the questions a literature review should attempt to answer.

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Check your understanding of the above with task 5a.

Before you continue, consider this question.

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