Hi there, I am looking for someone to write a literature review paper on the Lean Construction topic of, Health, Safety and Quality. I require Imagery such as Graphs and diagrams and for the literature review to follow exactly the format below. Thank you!
Steps for writing the literature review paper
Determine your purpose
Work out what you need to address in the literature review. What are you being asked to do in your literature review? What are you searching the literature to discover? Check your assignment question and your criteria sheet to know what to focus on.
Do an extensive search of the literature
Find out what has been written on the topic you chose.
What kind of literature?
Select appropriate source material: Use a variety of academic or scholarly sources that are relevant, current and authoritative. An extensive review of relevant material will include — books, journal articles, reports, government documents, conference proceedings and web resources. The Library would be the best place to search for your sources. Also, the lean conference papers are available on the Internation Group of Lean ConstructionLinks to an external site. website. The Lean Journal articles are available on the Lean Construction JournalLinks to an external site. website. The conference papers and journal articles are free to access on these websites.
How many resources?
You will be required to include a minimum of 10 resources (conference papers and journal articles) in your literature review.
How to reference your sources
Keep a note of the publication title, date, authors’ names, page numbers and publishers. These details will save you time later. Use the Endnote reference software to collect, store, and organise the publications. The recommended output reference style is the APA 7th style.
Click here to download and learn the Endote and APA 7th style from the UTS library.
Click here to learn how to create references using the APA reference style.
Read the literature
Critically read each source and look for the arguments presented rather than for facts.
Take notes as you read and start to organise your review around themes and ideas.
Consider using a table, matrix or concept map to identify how the different sources relate to each other.
Analyse the literature you have found
In order for your writing to reflect strong critical analysis, you need to evaluate the sources. For each source you are reviewing, ask yourself these questions:
What are the key terms and concepts?
How relevant is this article to my specific topic?
What are the major relationships, trends and patterns?
How has the author structured the arguments?
How authoritative and credible is this source?
What are the differences and similarities between the sources?
Are there any gaps in the literature that require further study?
Write the review
Start by writing your literature review statement. This important introductory sentence will tell your reader what the topic is and the overall perspective or argument you will be presenting.
Like essays, a literature review must have an introduction, a body and a conclusion.
Structure of a literature review
Introduction
Your introduction should give an outline of:
why you are writing a review, and why the topic is important
the scope of the review — what aspects of the topic will be discussed
the criteria used for your literature selection (e.g. type of sources used, date range)
the sections of the review.
Body paragraphs
Each body paragraph should deal with a different theme that is relevant to your topic. You will need to synthesise several of your reviewed readings into each paragraph so that there is a clear connection between the various sources. You will need to critically analyse each source for how they contribute to your research themes.
The body could include paragraphs on:
historical background
methodologies
previous studies on the topic
mainstream versus alternative viewpoints
principal questions being asked
general conclusions that are being drawn.
Conclusion
Your conclusion should give a summary of the following:
the main agreements and disagreements in the literature
any gaps or areas for further research
your overall perspective on the topic.
