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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Emma, thanks so much to you (and your team) for this brilliant and, yet succinct explanation of literature review; I am sure you people invest tons of hours in the production of such a high-quality lesson. Please be rest assured that some of us, viewers, are highly appreciative of your hard work. 👏

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Thank you this video made it more clear for me than other am working on my research paper and lit review for clinical mental health counseling.

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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.

[djibrildiarra]

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

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

[solomonyemidi]

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.

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