LITERATURE REVIEW TEMPLATE

Your Literature Review Assignment should have the following sections:

Abstract:

Give a brief overview of the aims, methods and expected findings of your work, and your contribution in this project. Write each of these points as small paragraph.

1. Introduction: (altogether 150-200 words)

• Give a definition of the topic you are researching (a description, an argument or a proposal)
• Tell your reader which area of the related literature you are going to research (what is interesting here: for example, you are researching the literature on tertiary students)
• Tell your reader which area of the related literature you are NOT going to research (i.e. ‘students’ does notmean primary and secondary students – you are not researching the literature on those)
• State the general findings (what do most sources conclude)

2. Review: (1000-2000 words)

2.1 Describe the field of research and show your reader how you will organise your research (in sections with headings)

2.2 Write your reviews, using the following guide: Describe the research + evaluate the contribution the work makes to the field + limitations of the research + How is it valuable for your project

Sample review (look at the colours – they match the descriptions above):

Gu et al. (2014) investigated the impact of noise on the clarity of pictures in facial recognition procedures. They offer a solution to the problem by combining two algorithms, leading to 78% clarity (Describe the research Section). Whilst this is an improvement over the current solution of 72% (evaluate the contribution the work makes to the field Section), the noise level is still unacceptably high (limitations of the research Section).

It would, therefore, seem that the combination of algorithms does not offer further possibilities for improvement.

Further algorithm-based research …

2.3 Describe the first current best selected solution ; discuss the most important features; justify why you think it is good and what the contribution is to the field of research.

Draw the diagram (Model) of it to simulate it

Discuss the limitations; justify why you think these are limitations and how this fits into your own research.

3. Conclusion (150-200 words)

Summarise the key findings from the literature review (positive); restate the limitations; based on these limitations, justify your research proposal.

4. References

All the references have been attached with this question for easy to find. Thanks