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WRITING A �LITERATURE REVIEW

DR. DOMINGO S. SAGNIP JR.

Master Teacher II

WRITING A �

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Definition of �A Literature Review

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  • A literature review is an evaluative report of information found in the literature related to your selected area of study.
  • A literature review is a constructive analysis of scholarly articles, books, and other sources relevant to a particular issue, area of research, or theory, providing a description, summary, and critical evaluation of each work.
  • A literature review is an interpretation and synthesis of published work or data.

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Reasons for Literature Review

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  • It focuses on previous research. -- It provides an overview and critical appraisal of past & current ideas, policies, and practices.
  • It shows how your study fills the “gap’'. -- It provides a basis upon which to make critical decisions regarding the directions of a research.
  • It sets boundaries of your study. – It determines the scope & specific objectives.
  • It explains the necessity and rationale of your study. – It tackles the sensibility, importance, and novelty a reseach work.

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Steps in Writing �A Literature Review

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1. Define a few research questions or

hypotheses from the topic.

2. Search for literature sources.

3. Read, evaluate, and make notes.

4. Define the extracted messages.

5. Compose a preliminary title.

6. Draft the body sections.

7. Draft the conclusions.

8. Draft the introduction.

9. Draft the abstract.

10. Draft the citations and references.

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11. Revise all the drafts.

12. Correct grammar, spelling, and

punctuation.

13. Adjust the layout.

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Format of �A Literature Review

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  • Title

It contains the title, author’s name,

and date of submission. The title is

usually composed between 8 to 12

words.

  • List of Authors

It declares intellectual ownership of the

work. It provides contact information.

  • Abstract

It informs about the main objectives

and result of the review article. It is

usually 200 to 250 words.

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  • Introduction

It provides information about the

context, indicates the motivation for

the review, defines the research

question, and explains the text

structure.

  • Body/Main Part

It includes methodological approaches,

models or theories, textual evidences,

and studies that agree with another

versus studies that disagree. It is

normally arranged in chronological

order.

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  • Conclusion

It contains answers to the research

question set in the introduction. It is

usually composed of 5 to 10% of the

core text.

  • References

It shows the list of sources for the

interested readers to verify the

literature mentioned in the text.

It normally ranges between 50-100

references.

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SAMPLE LITERATURE REVIEW

SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION

EXPOSURE OF TEENAGERS

AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON FAMILY RELATIONSHIP

Submitted to:

Dr. Domingo S. Sagnip, Jr.

English Teacher

Submitted by:

Arjay Lajer

February 16, 2017

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Abstract

The main objective of the study was to determine the implications of social media communication exposure of teenagers on family relationship. The study specifically aimed to address the following concerns: (1) the exposure of the respondents to social media communication technologies as to preferred technology used, frequency of use, and place where social media communication is accessed; and (2) the perceived implications of social media communication exposure of teenagers on family relationship in terms of family interaction patterns, benefits of social media communication, and problems encountered on the use of social media communication. Computer-mediated communication theory was used as the basis of the study, and the descriptive method of research was the

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methodology used. A total of two hundred ninety five (295) students were chosen through Slovin’s formula as the respondents of the study. Results showed that almost all of the respondents prefer to use Facebook as their means to social media communication at home for almost everyday. They agree with the family interaction patterns that family members use social network site to talk to their loved ones, instead of sitting down to have a conversation; they agree with the benefit that social media communication improves family members’ ability to communicate with each other; and they agree with the problems encountered that family members have difficulty thinking of things to do as a family using social media communication.

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Introduction

Nowadays, many people are using social media communication for almost everything. Almost all individuals, even children in young age, are now using mobile phones, email, and social network websites to communicate with others, instead of having face-to-face conversation. They use social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumbler, and Myspace to create and sustain relationships with their loved ones. These social media sites let them create personal profiles while connecting with other users of the sites.

The above circumstances prompted the interest of the researcher to determine the implications of social media communication exposure of teenagers on family relationship. Studying the said phenomenon is necessary to come up with an appropriate action plan

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which serves as a tool to address the abovementioned problems.

He decided to focus his study on the implications of social media communication exposure of teenagers on family relationship with emphasis in determining their profile, family interaction patterns, benefits of social media communication, and problems encountered on the use of social media communication. He also included the preferred technology used, the frequency of use, and the place where social media communication is accessed by the respondents.

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Body/Main Part

Social media communication exposure of teenagers which is one of the main variables of this study is related to the statements of Papp (2016) which reveals that social networking and virtual worlds have been cited as the most popular and used applications today; Elgan (2015) which states that virtual reality social networking will be hyper-compelling because it will enable people to interact with others not as their true selves, but as the versions of themselves they want to present to the world; Chasombat (2014) which points out that the use of social networking sites and other mobile applications have been growing intensively; Simonpietri (2011) which explains that recent studies

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show that older generations are now greatly increasing their social media use to connect with their “digitized” children; and Subrahmanyam and Greenfield (2008) state that, as a group, adolescents are heavy users of newer electronic communication forms such as instant messaging, e-mail, and text messaging, as well as communication-oriented internet sites such as blogs, social networking, and sites for sharing photos and videos.

Conclusion

However, social media has managed to create a huge amount of downfalls that greatly affect the lives of the people. For example, in today’s society, individuals have managed to become completely isolated from the world revolving around them.

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Instead of communicating the way they have grown up on how to communicate, they rely heavily on the internet. Besides, this fact is the trust aspect of what social media can cause within a home. At some point, parents start to lose trust with their children based on what they display on social networking sites, or things they reveal about themselves. Also, the children, too, start to lose trust with their parents because they feel that they cannot get any privacy (Macleighob, 2012). The face-to-face conversation between the parents and their children is very rare now to happen. More often, they do their talk through Facebook, Twitter, and other form of social media technologies to which the personal aspect of their family relationship and interpersonal communication diminishes significantly.

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References

Chasombat, Pritta (2014). Social Networking Sites

Impacts on Interpersonal Communication Skills

And Relationships. http://libdcms.nida.ac.th

Cloninger, Jan and Rosemary Strembicki (2015). How

Is Technology Affecting Your Family? The

Huffington Post, https://academichelp.net

Cuz, Maribel B. and Shannen Belle B. Cruz (2013). The

Use of Internet-Based Social Media As a Tool in

Enhancing Student’s Learning Experiences in

Biological Sciences, New Era University,

Philippines, www.hlrcjournal.com

DeSanctis, Geraldine and Peter Monge (2006).

Communication Processes for Virtual

Organizations. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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EXAMPLES OF LITERATURE REVIEW

Refer to the following links:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090212013008_560.pdf

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20070515025950_667.pdf

http://people.umass.edu/curtis/academics/researchtoolbox/pdfs/Reece_LitReview_2010.pdf

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LITERATURE REVIEW PROJECT

  • Literature Requirements

1. Type: Articles/Studies

2. Language: English

3. No. of Literature: 3 Articles / 2 Studies

  • Literature Review Requirements

1. Paper: Short Bond Paper

2. Font Style: Eras Demi ITC

3. Font Size: Title/Sub-Title -- 12

Text -- 11

4. Spacing: One and a half

  • Deadline of Submission

February 16 (Thursday) at 8:30 am

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Thank You!!!