A literature review is basically a survey report which discusses about the literature related to concerning area of study. People think that a literature review is something horrible and no one can write it properly. Truly, it is bit difficult but not too much to do. You can write it up to the mark by keep in mind some do’s and don’ts of literature review writing.

Students face problem in review writing because they don’t have information that how to write a literature review. Before discussing it, first of all understand what is a literature review? It is a brief overview of your studied topic which also determines your opinion about the topic in chronologically organized way.

Now for a good literature review, try to avoid these don’ts in your writing

• Don’t use unfamiliar technical terms.
• Don’t use too many abbreviations.
• Don’t use complex sentences with strange vocabulary.
• Say NO to punctuation and grammar errors.
• Don’t use passive voice in your text.
• Don’t repeat same ideas in your text.
 

Now, some useful guidelines concerning how to write a literature review.

• First of all make a clear statement of the research problem on which you want to conduct survey on.
• Try to be specific in selection of your topic.
• Ask to yourself whether you want to annotate or critique the previous literature available.
• Now, once you situate a clear statement on your research, then research and study enough facts either they are supporting your statement or not.
• As it is not a primary research, but is a report of other researches, so try to keep it in discussion style.
• Try to give a critical assessment of your chosen literature topic, try to state the weaknesses and gaps in previous studies, try to raise questions and give suggestions for improvement.
• Always use first person when you are going to write argue.
• Always list your ideas or theories in an unrepeated and sensible sequence.
• Write a complete bibliography that provides the resources from where you had collected the data in this literature review.
• Also, get feedback and suggestion from your colleagues to improve your review.

Now by reading this article on how to write a literature review, you are quite familiar with the tactics of writing an effective literature review which is clear in its statement, coherent in its information and persuasive in analysis.