Literature Review
The Literature review is an examination of the literature describing research into your topic or closely related to your topic. The purpose is
to explore how others have researched your topic and what they found. The results of the Literature Review should inform your
methodology to allow you to build on what others have discovered.
This section begins with a general description of how the Review of Literature will be organized and presented. Then, the review may be
organized as follows:
• The general history of the topic (resented chronologically)
• The current state
• Related factors and circumstances
• Related research by others, if appropriate
It is important to integrate the areas of Review of Literature into a logical sequence, starting with a broad focus of the topic and narrowing
down to a specific topic.
Methodology
This section describes the design of the research used to answer the research question or address the research problem. The
methodology is intended to be the action plan for the balance of your research. How will you frame your inquiry? What data will you
collect? How will you collect it? How will you analyze it once you collect it. The content and length of this section depends on the
nature of the research. This section may also include:
• Descriptions of the participants (who are they, and why were they chosen?) or business studied
• Instrumentation used to obtain data
• Procedures or steps in conducting the study and obtaining data
