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Literature Review
According to my point of view, the most difficult part of doing the research and understanding
the basics of how our research should be undertaken is critically reviewing the literature. A
literature review is the one in which we make reasoned judgments and critically reviewing the
literature means doing the analysis and critically develops a strong argument about what our
literature tells us about our research questions.
Problems in critically reviewing the literature
Following are the problems:
Providing Strong Arguments
The difficulty we can face according to me in critically reviewing the literature is while we are
critically reviewing the literature we have to coordinate too many sources and idea into a strong
and concrete logical arguments which seems to be a difficult task to do because it is not easy to
covert our idea and logics into strong logical arguments that support our idea logically and give
them strong support.
Mission Creep
Mission creep means when our review deviates from the initial objectives. Carefully design and
publish an a priori protocol that outlines planned methods for searching, screening, data
extraction, critical appraisal and synthesis in detail. Make use of existing organizations to
support you. (E.g. the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence).
No Specific Guidelines
Another difficulty we can face while critically reviewing the literature is the not specific
guidelines of how to critically review the literature so we may have to do it on our own because
the process of doing the critical review of literature is different for every topic so if we have to
select some topic on which we will make strong logical arguments we then also have to choose
the process how we will conduct our critical review of that topic which is not an easy task for
someone who is not frequent in doing the research or who is doing it for the first time.
Ineffective Synthesis
The main reason of doing the literature review is to create new knowledge by summarizing the
old set of knowledge. We use meta-analysis in quantitative review. It means combining of effect
sizes to generate one or more summaries. Sometimes while synthesizing the knowledge of other
researches we adopt wrong methods of doing the synthesis which may result in wrong and
inappropriate synthesis which provides arguments with not logics and having biased and errors.
The main reason of doing the literature review is to create new knowledge by summarizing the

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old set of knowledge. We use meta-analysis in quantitative review. It means combining of effect
sizes to generate one or more summaries. Sometimes while synthesizing the knowledge of other
researches we adopt wrong methods of doing the synthesis which may result in wrong and
inappropriate synthesis which provides arguments with not logics and having biased and errors
which puts a bad effect on our research.
Plagiarism
There are many steps involved in doing the critical review of our research topic and when we
adopt these different topics it sometime creates error and moreover we cannot copy the work of
others we have to do it on our own which is a difficult task to do because when we copy the
work of others it contains plagiarism which is a bad side of dong a research. Plagiarism means
we copy someone the work of someone else without his or her consent and it creates a big
problem for the researcher or the student who is doing some research. We have to analyze and
interpret our research topic on our own and create strong and logically supported arguments that
support our research topic clearly and give a strong background.
Lack of Consistency
If an individual is doing the analyses of research topics and producing a strong argument need to
be consistent in his or her work. He she should not avoid clearly identifying there topics and
need to use vast information in their work and need to remain as persistent as much as they can
in their work.
Lack of Error Checking
When a researcher is working alone there is many chances that his work contains errors so, He
should be careful to avoid errors. He needs to see why his works contains errors and after finding
the reasons he need to find the solution of how his error can be removed from his work to make
his work as best as possible.
Different Languages
Sometime while doing some literature review we have to go through different languages which
create a big problem for the researchers. Sometime researchers are not familiar with some
languages that they have to go through which creates a lot of fuss and difficulty for the
researcher to continue his research. Moreover, while doing the critical review of literature there
are some topics that we are not completely mastered and we have to analyze that topics too
which is also a difficult task to do because to analyze some topic we have to fully aware of that
topic so we can easily make logical arguments about that topic but if we are not clearly familiar
with some topic how we can analyze that topic and make concrete arguments about that topic.
Complex Topics

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