How to write a best literature review for your dissertation with a proper research gap

1
How to write a best literature review for your
dissertation with a proper research gap
2
Introduction

• A literature review is an essential element of
  any academic work such as dissertation and
  dissertation research proposal.
• Often misunderstood as a summary, it is more than
  that.
• It not only summarizes the literature but also
  presents the current state of knowledge, future
  study and gaps in the literature.
• Most of the times, the students tend to write
  only the summary and ignore the second part.
• Therefore, through this article, you will know
  how to analyze write the best literature review
  with proper gap.

3
Purpose of a literature review

• To ensure that the research is not replicated
• To highlight the key findings
• To identify the clues for future research
• To gain a constructive analysis regarding the
  approach and methodologies
• To start your research with a bang

4
Identifying Research Gaps

• While working on the literature review for your
  dissertation research proposal you need to
  identify the appropriate research gaps for an
  impactful research and demonstrate your expertise
  in the topic.
• But, identifying the gaps is not an easy task.
• Step 1 Focus on your area of research
• Step 2 Read a Lot
• Step 3 Map your Literature

5
Step 1 Focus on your area of research

• Before attempting to identify the gaps, you need
  to focus on your area of research for your
  dissertation proposal.
• Once you identify the area of research, you need
  to develop your knowledge on that topic.
• To identify a suitable topic for your research
  you need to perform exploratory research, read
  eBooks and get help from your faculty and
  advisors.

6
Step 2 Read a Lot

• The second step will be the most time-consuming.
  In this step, you will have to read as many
  articles as possible.
• You need to identify many resources from various
  sources such as online databases, journals,
  libraries and much more.
• Once you identify the resources, you need to pay
  close attention to the introduction, abstract,
  and future suggestion of the article.
• However, while reading all the resources
  possible, ensure that you do not get deviated due
  to other issues.

7
Step 3 Map your Literature

• While you are reading all the articles, you need
  to keep a track of all of them.
• Also, you need to simultaneously note down the
  questions that pop up in your head while reading
  them.
• Doing so will allow you to frame your thesis
  clearly.
• Research for all the questions that you have
  noted down and ensure if there are answers
  available to them.
• In case, you do not find the answer to any of the
  question, then you have found out the research
  gap.

8
Writing Literature review

• Refer Sample Literature Review
• Keep it Simple
• Make use of Current Resources
• Organize Your Work

9
Refer Sample Literature Review

• Before starting with the literature review for
  your dissertation proposal, refer to a sample
  literature review in your subject area and learn
  how the literature is written.
• Familiarize yourself with the existing
  discussions and debates.
• Doing so will provide a huge impact on your
  research.

10
Keep it Simple

• You need to ensure that your topic is narrow and
  you focus on it rather than deviating to a broad
  scale.
• Your tutor will not expect you to research and
  address all the arguments related to your topic.
• You will have to focus only on the arguments that
  relate to your hypothesis.

11
Make use of Current Resources

• A very important part of your literature review
  is that you make use of the most recent
  literature.
• The reason is that the discussions in the old
  literature might be outdated.
• Especially in the field such as medicine, the
  latest resource is always best.
• Sometimes there might be the need to refer old
  classic resources.
• However, you will still have to link those
  resources to the current approaches.

12
Organize Your Work

• Organizing your literature review is very to link
  one literature to the other.
• You can organize in various methods such as based
  on theme or based on chronology.
• Before starting, ensure think about the structure
  in your mind to help you work better.

13
Conclusion

• Now that you know how to write the best
  literature review dissertation, you should not
  find any issue identifying the research gaps.
• However, you find it difficult to write your
  literature review and wonder, can someone write
  my dissertation, you can get help from
  Uniresearchers.

14
THANKS!
Visit www.uniresearchers.co.uk
Contact No 441143600605 Email us
help_at_uniresearchers.com Whatsapp
447766699594 WeChat Uniresearchers