Focus Your Research: It narrows down a broad topic into a specific area of inquiry. Guide Your Methodology: It determines the type of data you need and how you will collect it. Provide Clarity: It ...

This is done by: looking at gaps in the research, limitations placed upon the researchers, finding new relationships among the data and discusses areas where further research could be conducted.

What is a literature review? A literature review is a comprehensive study and interpretation of the literature (articles, studies, journals) for a specific topic (Aveyard 2014). The primary role of ...