Alina Semyonova

The University of Wisconsin presents a guide ( https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/ReviewofLiterature.html ) which gives instructions on how to write a literature review. First, the authors say that a literature review can be either a self-contained item or a preface to a research paper. Then  the main purposes of a literature review are given:  to analyze a piece of knowledge, to classify and to compare previous studies. Further the structure of a literature review and some tips on its writing are presented.                                                      In introduction a student or a scholar should define the general area of concern, thus providing a context for a literature review. Then trends in recent publi...