Role of Literature in Research
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THE ROLE OF LITERATURE REVIEW IN THE RESEARCH PROCESS
A TERM PAPER
PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE COURSE
RESEARCH METHODS
BY
SIAW-ASAMOAH JOYCELYN
Literature simply is a body of written works. It is what has been written to be investigated, thus an existing body of written works or knowledge on a chosen topic or problem area. The name is often applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the excellence of their execution. Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
Definitions of the word literature tend to be circular. The Concise Oxford Dictionary says it is “writings whose value lies in the beauty of form or emotional effect.” The 19th-century critic Walter Pater referred to “the matter of imaginative or artistic literature” as a “transcript, not of mere fact, but of fact in its infinitely varied forms.” But such definitions really assume that the reader already knows what literature is. And indeed its central meaning, at least, is clear enough. Deriving from the Latin littera, “a letter of the alphabet,” literature is first and foremost mankind's entire body of writing; after that it is the body of writing belonging to a given language or people; then it is individual pieces of writing.
TYPES OF LITERATURE:
Basically there are two types of literature and these are:
• Theoretical or conceptual literature- it is the type of literature that portrays the general approach to answering a research problem. It is an instinctive discussion of conceptual issues that arise in answering the research problem though it entails a formal economic theory. It demonstrates which variables should be used in an empirical analysis and also points how the variables should emerge in the econometric model. • Empirical or research literature-this
THE ROLE OF LITERATURE REVIEW IN THE RESEARCH PROCESS
A TERM PAPER
PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE COURSE
RESEARCH METHODS
BY
SIAW-ASAMOAH JOYCELYN
Literature simply is a body of written works. It is what has been written to be investigated, thus an existing body of written works or knowledge on a chosen topic or problem area. The name is often applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the excellence of their execution. Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
Definitions of the word literature tend to be circular. The Concise Oxford Dictionary says it is “writings whose value lies in the beauty of form or emotional effect.” The 19th-century critic Walter Pater referred to “the matter of imaginative or artistic literature” as a “transcript, not of mere fact, but of fact in its infinitely varied forms.” But such definitions really assume that the reader already knows what literature is. And indeed its central meaning, at least, is clear enough. Deriving from the Latin littera, “a letter of the alphabet,” literature is first and foremost mankind's entire body of writing; after that it is the body of writing belonging to a given language or people; then it is individual pieces of writing.
TYPES OF LITERATURE:
Basically there are two types of literature and these are:
• Theoretical or conceptual literature- it is the type of literature that portrays the general approach to answering a research problem. It is an instinctive discussion of conceptual issues that arise in answering the research problem though it entails a formal economic theory. It demonstrates which variables should be used in an empirical analysis and also points how the variables should emerge in the econometric model. • Empirical or research literature-this
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