Literature Review: The Challenges and Approaches

One of the major challenges that some inexperienced postgraduate students encounter during their thesis journey, is the lack of appropriate knowledge, strategies and tactics needed to tackle the task of writing a good Literature Review (LR) or background chapter. That, respectively, will results in unsatisfactory outcome for the completion of their degrees. Subsequently, their contribution, despite the efforts they put in, will not be recognized by qualified peers in the field. This paper provides required trainings for early-career researchers and PG students to familiarize themselves with the basic challenges of and strategies for writing a good literature review chapter or a review paper.