The author of this brief essay has been asked to conduct a review of a set of articles and then offer a response to a few questions. These questions include what a review of the literature is meant to do, how this literature review relates to the predefined problems and questions identified by the researcher and what other hypotheses and questions might arise while looking at the provided articles. Indeed, it can be very useful to engage in a literature review, either as the main way a research program is executed or as part of a primary study. While literature reviews can be botched and mishandled if done incorrectly, they can be a very positive thing for good research and scholarly when done correctly.
Analysis
As explained by the commentary for the second module, the goal and reason to engage in a proper literature review is clear. Indeed, it serves as a foundation for the paper that is otherwise to be written. It serves as a bit of a starting point for the broader research and journey that is to come. Rather than starting from zero when it comes to the methodology, results and/or discussion that is...
To put things concisely, the authors of a study or report use a literature review as a sort of third party verification and listing of the presumptions and assumptions that underpin the new material and research that is in this new report. For example, if a person was doing a report on the decriminalization of drug use, they would likely cite other reports and studies, whether it be from the same country as the new study or a different one, that support the practice or at least support the idea that further research should be done. This helps to justify and support, before the new material is even covered, why the new directions and ideas are being explored (USC, 2017).
The author of this report is now directed to look at the Greenwood article and assess how the hypothesis offered for this new study is supported by the literature review. Of course, the hypothesis that is new centers on the idea that the terminal values…
