Research and Technical Writing for Science and Engineering

CHAPTER 4Literature Review and Formulating a Problem

DOI: 10.1201/​9781003139058-4

CONTENTS

1. 4.1 What Is a Literature Review?

2. 4.2 Types of Literature Reviews

   • 4.2.1 Stand-Alone Literature Review Articles

   • 4.2.2 Research Proposal

   • 4.2.3 Research Report in the Workplace

3. 4.3 Common Structure of Literature Reviews

4. 4.4 What is the Literature?

5. 4.5 The “Information Cycle”

   • 4.5.1 Primary Sources

   • 4.5.2 Secondary Sources

   • 4.5.3 Tertiary

6. 4.6 Working Backwards

7. 4.7 The Published Literature

   • 4.7.1 Peer Review

8. 4.8 How to Find the Literature

   • 4.8.1 Computer Science Research Databases

   • 4.8.2 Footnote Chasing

9. 4.9 Writing the Literature Review

10. 4.10 Key Points When Writing a Literature Review

11. 4.11 Adaptive Resource Allocation in Cloud Systems

    • 4.11.1 Types of ...