What is the purpose of writing literature reviews in your academic works? So, we can enlighten this topic in order to clear up some misunderstandings, which take place when you start writing your literature review.
 
First of all, it is necessary to point out what a literature review is. Well, a literature review is a chapter of your academic work, which describes literature sources used by an author and presents a kind of criticism of some particular topics from the text.
 
Your literature review should be logically connected. It is important to present information in a certain order.
 
You should mention the following in the literature reviews:

• A bit of criticism makes your literature review more exciting;
• Your ideas about the topic you have chosen is just what you need;
• Problems, which are described in your work, should be mentioned in the literature review as well;
• A certain style should be taken into consideration when writing your literature review;
• All primary and secondary sources are to be mentioned in the literature review. It is important to cite all used sources properly and completely (according to the style chosen);

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In the process of creating the work it is very important to pay attention to the dissertation literature review in order to prove your paper’s accuracy. But first of all we should give the concrete definition to it in order to present it correctly. So, literature review in a dissertation is a register of used resources related to the topic of the dissertation.
 
Very often the dissertation literature review is confused with an annotated bibliography. In order to underline the differences we should examine the meanings of both. So, the main aim of dissertation literature review is to state the grounds for the possible following research, a number of possible, connected to the point, comments, thesis and statements of purpose. As for the annotated bibliography, it is only a catalogue of used literature sources with laconic description. Concerning the purposes a good thing to mention is the structure.
 
Literature review in a dissertations is organized as the gapless, descriptive text. A lot of quotations are used. The purpose of literature review list is not to give the list of used material only, but also to show the importance of it, its influence and general information. In the process of creating the dissertation literature review you can express your own ideas as for the necessity of chosen resource, describe the further using in of the statements given in it. It depends upon the person writing the dissertation literature review to choose the way of dissertation presentation. It can be classified according to the importance, or according to the character. (more…)