Unit 13 Reviews Unit 13 Reviews DLMU Topical Highlights Topical Highlights ? Definition of Review: a critical summary, commentary and literally documented assessment of a work on a specific subject or in a particular field ? Analytical and Theoretical Frameworks: Reading may help you to devise a theoretical or analytical framework as a basis for the analysis and interpretation of data ? Evidence that you have read a certain amount of relevant literature: Any investigation, whatever the scale, will involve reading what other people have written about your area of interest ? Functions of a review of related literature: 9 functions ? Classification of Reviews: literature reviews, book reviews ? Linguistic Features of Reviews: general contents of book reviews, general contents of literature reviews, Presentation of a Review Theme Presentation Theme Presentation ?1. Definition of Review ? A review, as opposed to a survey, should be a critical and literally documented assessment of a work on a specific subject or in a particular field . A review author is expected to make clear the purpose of the review; the sources used to support the content; the conclusions drawn from the content. DLMU 2. Analytical and Theoretical Frameworks 2. Analytical and Theoretical Frameworks ? Reading as much as time permits about your topic may give you ideas about approach and methods which had not occurred to you and may also give you ideas about how you might classify and present your own data. It may help you to devise a theoretical or analytical framework as a basis for the analysis and interpretation of data. It is not enough merely to collect facts and to describe what is. All researchers collect many facts, but then must organize and classify them into a coherent pattern . ? Verma and Beard (1981) suggest that researchers need to identify
