Various styles of literature review writing

Different perspectives of Thai scholars

Abstract

            A literature review is one of the most important steps in the research process as it demonstrates the extent to which researchers are familiar with the relevant research problems and how much they have researched.  While reviewed literature is commonly given its own section within a research paper, many scholars have writing styles when presenting a literature review. Therefore, the study of any singular example may not accurately reflect the possibilities for presenting a literature review. This current article compiles explanations of three different literature styles: 1) the style of presenting the literature review comprising the researchers' personal opinions 2) the style of presenting the concept or theory and the related research, and 3) the presentation style using modern documents. In each style, the author's viewpoint or style is included.