PhD Thesis Writing Process: A Systematic Approach—How to Write Your Literature Review
- 1 Future Expert Solutions, Creative Research and Innovations, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract
Literature writing is a skill that every PhD candidate must procure to communicate his or her research findings clearly. The main objective of this paper is to facilitate the literature writing pro cess so that PhD candidates understand what PhD literature is and are able to write their PhD literature correctly and scientifically. The methodology used in this research is a descriptive method as it deliberates and defines the various parts of literature writing process and elucidates the how to do of it in a very unpretentious and understanding language. As thus, this paper summarizes the various steps of literature writing to pilot the PhD students so that the task of PhD literature writing process becomes adaptable and less discouraging. This research is a useful roadmap especially for students of the social science studies. Additionally, in this paper, literature writing techniques, procedures and important strategies are enlightened in a simple manner. This paper adopts a how-to approach when discussing a variety of relevant topics , such as literature review introduction, types of literature review, advantages of literature reviews, objective of literature review, literature review template, and important check lists about literature review are discussed. This paper has 5 parts , such as Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results and Conclusion. The literature review chapter is discussed in this paper. I will discuss the rest as a series in the future.
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