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A microorganism is an organism so small that people cannot see them with the naked eye.

Microorganisms can be harmful and useful organisms.

Has a Point of View

A literature review

should provide

making sense of different approaches

findings from prior work.

concepts

new insights by integrating multiple strands

the authors relate articles to their research questions

a description of relevant articles that have been published in the past

A strong literature review

makes a contribution in itself.

is the outcome of a creative process

Motivates Your Research Question

Harmful microorganisms include fungi, bacteria, protozoa, etc.

They cause several diseases in human beings, animals, and plants, which can even lead to death.

The harmful microorganisms not only can damage the human body, but also the food we eat.

great researches

motivated by a “real-world” issue

think about what your reviewers and readers will value.

be as specific as possible

Literature review needs to be

What diseases can they cause?

shaped by your research questions

focused your questions what your going to ask.

you need to be clear

Doing a literature

Give examples of how the spread of harmful organisms can be prevented.

maintain a wide and up-to-date understanding of your subject area

It is

Give examples of how harmful organisms can spread.

essential to have interesting and relevant research questions

Identify arguments about why it is an important gap to fill.

motivated by a gap

Signals a Fit Between the Research and the Journal

Research about the main characteristics of the microorganisms and give examples!

To build on existing conversations.

authors should familiarize themselves with at least the last 2 years of articles

for a Journal

be useful

A focused review on a specific topic

cite previous articles published in the journal.

your paper needs to be relevant to the area of specialty

literature review is a key element in this process

positioned at

the start of an article and so not only are important in themselves

frames

an article by positioning it against past research

Is Well Written

only some of your readers will be expert in your particular topic

and, indeed, your entire paper) before you submit it to a journal

to check whether your ideas are clear and well constructed.

It is helpful to have another scholar read over your literature review.

you need to have a clear logical progression when you are laying out your arguments

A frequently used structure

contrast those to studies that have different findings

is to group studies with the same findings

You need to think about the extent to which you are going to portray prior research as complementary

the methods section

content of your paper’s literature review are mutually dependent

has a relatively prescribed structure and content

The literature review

is a difficult part of a paper to write

Covers Recent Research

Microorganisms help in the production of many food items, making medicines, keeping the environment clean, in manufacturing, and in research.

new knowledge in their paper

Microorganisms have a role in waste disposal, agriculture, and nutrient recycling.

Give examples of these types.

signal that the authors are up to date in the topic

If you have presented your paper at several conferences

Give examples of bacteria used in the pharmaceutical industry.

and your ideas can seem stale.

your original reference list is likely to be 3 or 4 years out of date

Make sure you do a new literature

it has already gone through a review process at a previous journal

It is unfortunately too common

Give examples of Microorganisms in food production.

have

with only a handful of articles published in the past 5 (or even 10!) years.

Covers Past Research Thoroughly

There are five types of microorganisms. Out of these five, four can be free-living or parasitic.

There is one that can be only parasitic since it always reproduces inside other living things.

After enumerating them, click on the flags below to mark the ones which can be free-living and the ones that cannot.

The coverage

You need to include the definitive

on a topic and also the articles that are relevant to your narrow

research questions

If you are studying something like succession

for example, an exhaustive reference list

would be overwhelming and drown out the rest of your paper

if a reviewer identifies some key articles

That being said, it is not desirable to be exhaustive

It detracts from your authoritativeness as a subject expert

ls to reviewers how well you know this body of past research.

Defines Your Key Research Constructs

Name the study of microorganisms.

Subtopic

the exceptions

are when a paper is focused on construct development

the definitions

there will be

Your reviewers and readers are aware of this

alternative, and sometimes inconsistent, definitions in past work.

should be linked

you have investigated in your research

empirically

conceptually