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Guidance on Individual Literature Review
1. What is literature review
A literature review is a critical summary of what the existing says about your specific topic or question.
2. Requirement of the “Individual Literature Review” assignment
Individual work: After you have determined your research question in a group, for this component, pls work individually and submit your work
individually.
Number of words: 900-1,100
Contents: Pls make a literature review on existing studies related to your research question. In this summary, pls present your summaries and
evaluations of the sources in a clear, logical, and coherent manner. Some options for organizing your review include chronological, order of
importance, two sides of a controversial problem, differences in perspective or viewpoint. Your review must “read” like a coherent paper, not a
list.
You are not required to develop a hypothesis following the literature review, but if you do, it is also acceptable.
References: You should offer proper citations on all the literatures that you have mentioned in the literature review with proper and professional
formats. The references are not counted in the limits of number of words.
Marking criteria:
Criteria Fails to meet
criteria
Meets criteria Exceeds criteria Score
(perce
ntage)
Percentage Note
Coverage of key
literatures related to
this topic and
organizing it in a well structured way.
Inadequate
coverage and
unstructured.
Key points
covered well
and literatures
are well
organized.
Key points covered
adequately and the
organization is
exceptionally good.
50
Critically summary
and linking with your
question
Lacking critical
summary
Critically
summarize the
literatures and
links well with
research
question
Exceptionally good in
critically summarizing
literatures
30
Writing quality
(including references)
Poor and
confusing.
Well written. Exceptionally good. 20
Deadline: 11:59pm of Sunday in Week 12, via Turnitin in iLearn.
3. Sample literature reviews
He, Li, and Yeung (2018), pages 6-8, “2.1 Related Literature on Institutional Investors’ Monitoring”, is a good example of literature review
on a specific topic. This review also critically highlights the link of the research question with existing literature (see for instance, last sentence of
paragraph 2, page 7; and for another instance, last sentence of the last paragraph in page 7.
Han and Pan (2019), page 7-9, “2. Literature Review” offers an example of reviewing two different viewpoints on one question.
Two additional examples from students from prior semesters.