Review of Related Literature

It is a critical evaluation of sources related to the research topic.

It contains literature coming from books, journals and other forms of material relevant to the study but are non-empirical materials both from foreign and local sources.

It is empirically based, like scientific paper, theses and dissertations, both published and unpublished from foreign and local sources.

It is not an original source, has no direct physical connection to the person or event being studied.

These are sources that abstract, organize, compile or digest other sources.

These are original sources of information that have not yet been filtered through analysis, examination or interpretation.

It provides scholarly or societal context and identifies the overall state of knowledge.

It reinforces the research purpose and establishes the importance of your proposed research relative to the current state of knowledge.

Its primary aim is to present facts in reasonably objective manner.

Its purpose to present own point of view with the support of relevant facts presented in logical manner.