“Research can be done alone - but it is never done in isolation.” (O'Leary, 2004)
A literature review is, “a systematic, explicit, and reproducible method for identifying, evaluating, and interpreting the existing body of recorded work produced by researchers, scholars, and practitioners.” (Fink, 1998).
Essentially, a literature review surveys and summarizes prior knowledge pertaining to a specific topic. A literature review most often surveys prior knowledge in written forms (i.e., “the literature”), such as journal and conference papers, books, magazine articles,
patents, government publications, etc., but it also can include personal interviews and other non-written sources of information.
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