Essay HRPYC81 - Project 4805 Assignment 26 (HRPYC81)

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PROJECT 4805 - ASSIGNMENT 26.




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Activity 1:
Name and briefly discuss 5 purposes of a literature review. To help you with this, study
Chapter 2 of your prescribed book (Terre Blanche et al., 2006) on ‘Doing an information
search’, as well as information on the literature review in this and other tutorial letters. If you
cannot find Terre Blanche’s book, use any other source on the purpose of a literature review.
[10 marks]

1. To identify knowledge gaps and to develop a research problem

2. To identify a theoretical framework upon which to base the research

3. To identify issues and variables related to the research topic.

4. To identify conceptual and operational definitions – clear and unambiguous

definitions of key concepts.

5. To identify methodologies employed by other studies investigating similar problems.