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Literary Reviews: This Is Not Supposed to Be a Summary
A literary review is a discussion of literature sources presenting the analysis of the topic under consideration. As a rule, literary reviews are a part of dissertations, essays, and research papers. The current article contains discussion of the basic aspects important for writing literary reviews.
Remember that a literary review is not a summary of the book or enumeration of literary sources available on the topic. You should not read all articles and books related to the sphere of study you are discussing. The only thing that should be done in the course of writing literary review is to include discussion of sources relevant for your research on the specific topic.
Thereby, when your write a literary reviews, you should answer a number of questions concerning literary sources you are using:
- Did the author state the issue?
- Is the issue defined in a clear way? Do readers realize the significance of the source?
- Could the issue be presented in more effective way?
- What is the main sphere of the author’s orientation?
These and a great number of other questions have to be answered to complete a literary review in accordance with basic rules of writing literary reviews.
You literary review has to define a specific issue in order to help in conducting a research. When you start writing a review, you should focus on the main purpose of this task. What do you need it for? The answer is simple: literary sources should help you to define the relevance of the research and effectiveness of research presentation conducted by other authors. Analyze literary sources in order to make your paper more grounded and effective.
