List the purposes of literature review.

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a) To help refine further research question(s) and objectives;
b) To highlight research possibilities that have been overlooked implicitly in research to date;
c) To discover explicit recommendations for further research. These can provide you with a superb justification for your own research question(s) and objectives;
d) To help avoid simply repeating work that has been done already;
e) To sample current opinions in newspapers, professional and trade journals, thereby gaining insights into the aspects of your research question(s) and objectives that are considered newsworthy;
f) To discover and provide an insight into research approaches, strategies and techniques that may be appropriate to your own research question(s) and objectives.

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• To determine what has already been done related to the research problem being studied. This will help the researcher to:
- Avoid unnecessary and unintentional duplication.
- Form the framework within which the research findings are to be interpreted.
- Demonstrate his or her familiarity with the existing body of knowledge.
• Helps reveal the strategies, procedures and measuring instruments that have been found useful in investigating the problem in question. This will help the researcher to:
- Avoid mistakes that have been made by other researchers
- Benefit from other researcher’s experiences
- Clarify how to use certain procedures, which one may only have learned in theory.
• Helps to suggest other procedures and approaches, which will help, improve the research study.
• Familiarizes the researcher with previous studies, which facilitates interpretation of the results of the study. If there is a contradiction, the literature review might provide rationale for the discrepancy.
• It helps the researcher to limit the research problem and to define it better.
• Helps to determine new approaches and stimulates new ideas. The researcher may be alerted to research possibilities, which have been overlooked in the past.
• Approaches that have been proved to be futile will be revealed through literature review.
• Specific suggestions and recommendations for further research can be found by reviewing literature.
• It pulls together, integrates and summarizes what is known in an area. Thus helping to reveal gaps in information and areas where major questions still remain.

Kavungya answered the question on March 7, 2019 at 07:21

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