REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE (RRL)
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
• Literature – is an oral or written record of man’s
significant experiences that are artistically
conveyed in a prosaic manner.
• Embodied in any literary work like essay, novel,
journal, story, biography, etc. are man’s best
thoughts and feelings about the world.
• These recorded or preserved world perceptions of
man are expressed directly or indirectly.
• Direct expressions of man’s knowledge of the world are
in books, periodicals, and online reading materials.
• Indirect expressions are his inferences or reflection of his
surroundings that are not written or spoken at all.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
• Review of Related Literature – is an analysis of
man’s written or spoken knowledge of the world.
• Purposes of Review of Related Literature
• To obtain background knowledge of your research.
• To relate your study to the current condition or situation
of the world.
• To show the capacity of your research work to introduce
new knowledge.
• To expand, prove, or disprove the findings of previous
research studies.
• To increase your understanding of the underlying
theories, principles, or concepts of your research.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
• Purposes of Review of Related Literature
• To explain technical terms involved in your research
study.
• To highlight the significance of your work with the kind of
evidence it gathered to support the conclusion of your
research.
• To avoid repeating previous research studies.
• To recommend the necessity of further research on a
certain topic.
STYLES OR APPROACHES OF RRL
• Traditional Review of Related Literature
• To do a review of literature in a traditional way is to
summarize present forms of knowledge on a specific
subject.
• Your aim here is to give an expanded or new
understanding of an existing work.
• Being necessarily descriptive, interpretative, evaluative,
and methodically unclear and uncertain, a traditional
review is prone to your subjectivity.
• This kind of review does not require you to describe your
method of reviewing literature but expects you to take
your intentions in conducting the review and to name the
sources of information.
STYLES OR APPROACHES OF RRL
• Traditional review is of different types that are as
follows:
• Conceptual review – analysis of concepts or ideas to give
meaning to some national or world issues.
• Critical review – focuses on theories or hypothesis and examines
meanings and results of their application to situations.
• State-of-the-art review – makes the researcher deal with the
latest research studies on the subject.
• Expert review – encourages a well-known expert to do the RRL
because of the influence of a certain ideology, paradigm, or
belief on him/her.
• Scoping review – prepares a situation for a future research work
in the form of project making about community development,
government policies, and health services, among others.
STYLES OR APPROACHES OF RRL
• Systematic Review of Literature
• As indicating by its name, systematic, which
means methodical, is a style of RRL that involves
sequential acts of review of related literature.
• Systematic review requires you to go through the
following RRL steps:
• Have a clear understanding of the research questions.
• Plan your manner of obtaining the data.
• Do the literature search.
STYLES OR APPROACHES OF RRL
• Systematic review requires you to go through the
following RRL steps:
• Using a certain standard, determine which data, studies,
or sources of knowledge are valuable or not to warrant
the reasonableness of your decision to take some data
and junk the rest.
• Determine the methodological soundness of the research
studies.
• Summarize what you have gathered from various sources
of data.
