HRPYC 81 -
PROJECT 4805 -
ASSIGNMENT 26.
Name and briefly discuss 5 purposes of a literature review. To help you with this, study
Chapter 2 of your prescribed book (Terre Blanche et al., 2006) on ‘Doing an information
search’, as well as information on the literature review in this and oth...
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Activity 1:
Name and briefly discuss 5 purposes of a literature review. To help you with this, study
Chapter 2 of your prescribed book (Terre Blanche et al., 2006) on ‘Doing an information
search’, as well as information on the literature review in this and other tutorial letters.
[10 marks]
1 Identifying knowledge gaps and developing a research problem: to be practical, the
identified research problem has to clearly stated with explicit parameters.
2 Identifying a theoretical framework: refining a research problem, includes identifying a
theoretical framework upon which to base the research.
3 Identifying issues and variables related to the research topic: Reading literature helps the
researcher to focus on important issues and variables that have a bearing on the research
question.
4 Identifying conceptual and operational definitions: It is an important aspect of the research
process to provide clear and unambiguous definitions of key concepts.
5 Executing the search: researchers need to know where to look and search for sources of
information most likely to yield literature about the topic.
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