Behiye TURAN - Yüksek Lisans

ONE The literature review: its role within research Learning Objectives After reading this chapter, you should be able to: v Define a ‘literature review’ and rehearse arguments for its importance. v Describe some benefits from reviewing the literature in a systematic way. v Identify landmarks in the development of research synthesis. v Make an initial assessment of the extent to which reviews in your own discipline or topic area can be described as ‘systematic’. Introduction Room without a (re)view? Conducting any type of research project without conducting a literature review can be likened to travelling to a strange and exotic country but never coming out of your hotel room. How will you convince your friends back home that you truly sampled the delights of this exotic destination? Granted you may reach your destination, you may even achieve the occasional moment of insight but you will be starved of so many valuable moments of discovery. It may seem to an outsider that you have neve...