How To Structure Your Literature Review For Success: Full Tutorial (+Examples)

Learn how to structure your literature review the right way. Emma explains the three most popular structures/layouts for the literature review chapter, step by step. If you're working on a literature review for your dissertation, thesis or research project, this is essential viewing!
OVERVIEW: Literature Review Structure & Layout
00:00 Intro & overview
00:57 The purpose of the LR chapter
01:56 The 3 core components
02:24 The opening/intro section
04:50 The body section
05:54 The 3 most popular structural options
06:06 Thematic structure
07:35 Chronological structure
09:05 Methodological structure
11:09 Conclusion section
12:57 Recap
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Thank you this video made it more clear for me than other videos.....I am working on my research paper and lit review for clinical mental health counseling.

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Thank you so much Emma

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[@djibrildiarra17]

Thank you so much for this great job with clear and soft explanation. It is brief and clear. Anyway a have a question : "Is it possible to combine different ways of discussing a litterature review in the body part ? I mean combine thematic and historical, or thematic and methodological for examples ?" Thank you.

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I really appreciate your hard work. Thank you so much. It is really a big help for me

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Wow, this is right on time. I am literally working on my MSc in Forensic Accounting Dissertation, I am at the Literature Review section. Thank you for posting. Date Stamp: 03sept22

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Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your dissertation.

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I sincerely appreciate your effort towards impacting knowledge,but I will recommend that you give examples that are in form of research writing e.g for this topic"literature review" you can just illustrate by writing a typically brief literature review to enable better understanding and help those who can't grasp to better appreciate your work.

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Thanks I like the tutorial, is the one on one review free or we have to pay and if free how to go about it.

[@kiprotichh]

Awesome, I like how you do it

[@GradCoach]

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[@EenGamer.]

I wrote up my results, discussion and conclusion. Should or can I add new sections to the literature review?

[@GradCoach]

If your data analysis has brought new discussions to the surface that require additional theoretical grounding (i.e., you haven't covered them in your LR yet), then it would typically make sense to revisit your LR and flesh it out a little.

[@herujunaidi]

Thank you

[@puspath1643]

Really helpful 👍👍👍.... please make a video of how to structure methodology

[@GradCoach]

Glad it helped :) We have a few videos covering methodology on the channel and a few more on the blog - see gradcoach.com/category/methodology-analysis/

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[@solomonyemidi3203]

Research may result from gaps in practices of a certain field (e.g. conduct of monetary policy by central banks) that may not have anything to do with literature. How do we handle such an issue? This is because not all research topics are based on gaps in the literature.

[@sarahglanville1352]

Generally, and without knowing what exactly your research aim is, my thought is this: If research on a topic is missing (central bank policies and their policies) then the ’gap in practice’ is also a gap in the research literature. If you are embarking on an under investigated area of research, you are making the case for conducting research. It is trickier because your literature will point to the value of contributing research to your area of study, so you will be pulling from literature that supports that. I don’t know your thesis, but maybe things like ‘trust in banking’ ‘banking and ethics’ economic theories and banking, and civic and political theory…. In this case your thematic review makes the case for your thesis/original research.

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