Can You Explain The Usage And Step Of Literature Survey?

A literature survey, also called literature search is done when you are doing some research on a topic and intend to write something about it. It might be so that some one else might have done a research on the subject or topic before you. The purpose of a literature survey is to acknowledge that someone before you has done a research on this topic and that you may be drawing on their ideas in your own research. It includes only those publications and books that are relevant for your research only and can be used t support your stance. Here you also provide an overview of the method you will use and the person who has already done it before you. These publications have to be authentic and reliable. I can give you a line an example from a literature survey I did for a project on relationship between hypertension and stress. It is as follows:

“Recent views of the concept of psychological or social ‘stress’ have found it near impossibly to define the term in any but the most general terms. (cf. Appley & Trumbull, 1967; Lazarus, 1966; Levine & Scotch, 1970; Syme & Reeder, 1967)”.

There are no specific steps of doing the survey, you include the material that you think is relevant to you research and then also properly reference it by telling about the author and where it was published, for further help you can visit: www2.cs.hut.fi