First of all, what is literature review?

Literature review is a writing style which is different from graduation thesis by comprehensively analyzing, summarizing and commenting on the research status, new level, new trends, new technologies, new discoveries and development prospects in this research field (including main academic viewpoints, previous research achievements and research level, focus of debate, existing problems and possible reasons, etc.). On the basis of reading and understanding the literature in the research field extensively after choosing the topic, I put forward my own opinions and research ideas.

It requires the author not only to comprehensively sort out and state the main points of the materials consulted, but also to make a more professional, comprehensive, in-depth and systematic discussion and corresponding evaluation of the comprehensively sorted documents according to his own understanding and understanding, instead of just "piling up" academic research on Hui hunger in related fields.

Second, the benefits of writing a literature review

Let students learn to write literature review at least has the following benefits:

1. Through the process of collecting documents and materials, you can be further familiar with the methods of finding scientific documents and accumulating materials; In the process of searching, we also expanded our knowledge;

2. Searching for literature and writing literature review is the first step in selecting topics and conducting scientific research, so learning the writing of literature review is also a process of laying the foundation for future scientific research activities;

3. The writing of literature review is conducive to improving the ability of induction, analysis and synthesis, and to improving the ability of independent work and scientific research;

4. Literature review of graduation project (thesis) should be written in combination with the nature of the subject.

Thirdly, the structure of literature review.

Literature review requires a detailed introduction of the above-mentioned information, trends, progress, prospects and comments related to the theme, which generally includes the following four parts: preface, theme, summary and references. When writing a literature review, you can write an outline according to these four parts, and then write according to the outline.

The preface mainly explains the purpose of writing, introduces related concepts and definitions, outlines the scope, and briefly explains the current situation or focus of debate of related topics, so that readers can have a preliminary outline of the problems to be described in the full text.

The theme part is the main body of the summary, and the writing methods are diverse and there is no fixed format. It can be summarized in chronological order, and different viewpoints can be compared according to different problems. No matter which format is adopted, it is necessary to summarize, sort out, analyze and compare the documents collected by the designated green slag, and make clear the historical background, present situation and development direction of related topics and comments on these issues. In the subject part, special attention should be paid to the references and comments of representative, scientific and creative documents.

The summary part is somewhat similar to the summary of the research paper. It is best to summarize the theme of the full text and put forward your own opinions.

Although references are placed at the end of the article, they are an important part of literature review. Because it not only shows the respect for the author of the cited literature and the basis of the cited literature, but also provides clues for readers to discuss related issues in depth. So take it seriously. The arrangement of references should be clear, easy to find and accurate.

Fourth, the problems that should be paid attention to in writing literature review

Literature review, as its name implies, consists of "synthesis" and "narration". The first half of Synthesis is not too difficult, and it is comprehensively classified, refined and summarized according to a large number of documents consulted.

The narrative and analysis in the second half are the dividing line of a high-quality summary, which needs to be integrated into the author's own theoretical level, professional foundation, ability to analyze and solve problems, and put forward his own unique views on the basis of reasonable analysis of problems. Therefore, after selecting a topic, it is necessary to collect relevant literature around the topic.