Conducting Research
Purpose of a Literature Review
- Identifies gaps in current knowledge
- Helps you to avoid reinventing the wheel by discovering the research already conducted on a topic
- Sets the background on what has been explored on a topic so far Increases your breadth of knowledge in your area of research
- Helps you identify seminal works in your area
- Allows you to provide the intellectual context for your work and position your research with other, related research
- Provides you with opposing viewpoints
- Helps you to discover research methods which may be applicable to your work
Greenfield, T. (2002). Research methods for postgraduates. 2nd ed. London: Arnold.
Purpose of an Annotated Bibliography:
- Review the literature on a particular topic
- Provide the reader with sources of information
- Illustrate the quality and scope of one's research
- Place original research in a historical context
- Establish relationships between sources
- Highlight strengths and weaknesses of the source
List from Writing an Annotated Bibliography by Massasoit Community College
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