Literature Review

The Literature Review mostly appears near the start of your PhD Thesis (after the Introduction chapter) and is a key part of your overall PhD structure. It is a summary of the current writings in the field you are researching and into which your PhD will eventually fit. Rather than simply a list of different writers in the field and their opinions, your Literature Review should give a clear idea of the whole field as it currently stands, describing different bodies of literature, providing varying standpoints on the important issues, and indicating where general opinions have recently changed or are currently being challenged. It must provide a critique of each work, not simply a summary of the books and articles to which you prefer.