Open AccessConceptualizing the Pathways of Literature Review in Research
Author(s) -
Nabaraj Neupane
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of practical studies in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2634-4629
DOI - 10.46809/jpse.v2i1.16
Subject(s) - computer science , task (project management) , management science , process (computing) , conceptual framework , work (physics) , data science , empirical research , systematic review , epistemology , engineering ethics , knowledge management , sociology , systems engineering , social science , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering , philosophy , medline , law , operating system
Since research work is an adventurous expedition, one requires clear pathways, without which the researcher can be lost in the foggy way. To develop a good roadmap is, thus, a crucial task on the part of the researcher. Based on this assumption, this study aimed to conceptualize the notions, functions, and components of literature review that subsumes developing a conceptual framework, an outline of a research work. To achieve this objective, I adopted descriptive-interpretive design of research. Basing my study on theoretical and conceptual insights from different theoreticians’ and researchers' works, I analyzed and interpreted the information obtained from the templates used by the previous researchers. I have inferred that literature review, which is indispensable in research process, functions like a beacon light for safe harbouring the research work. I have also inferred, like many have done, that the basic components of literature review consist of introduction, review of theoretical and empirical literature, implication of the review, and theoretical and/or conceptual framework/s. Its implication is that any research work needs to pave its pathways distinctly for its successful execution.