The Literature Review section of a dissertation discusses about the previously published scholarly material in the particular area of research. The list of objectives, this summarized chapter intends to achieve are as follows:
- To describe the slender domain of study to which the dissertation report will supplement further knowledge.
- To describe and evaluate the studies that support the dissertation’s research problems, significance and hypotheses.
- To evaluate the studies that describe the framework to select the variables for data analysis.
- To identify and evaluate the studies that support the chosen research methodology.
And lastly, to support the dissertation’s measurement tools, techniques and methods for data collection.