What is literature review and how to write it?

The significance of literature review:

Literature review is a comprehensive article that comprehensively reflects the historical background, predecessors' work, debate focus, research status and development prospect of related fields or topics by comprehensively analyzing the main research achievements, latest progress, research trends and frontier issues at home and abroad on the basis of collecting a large number of literature materials in a certain research field or topic.

How to write a literature review;

1. Topic: The topic of literature review generally consists of two parts: "research topic or main topic of paper or design report+literature review". The title can be XXX literature review, XXX literature review or XXX research literature review. The topic of literature review is in the middle.

2. Preface. This paper points out the topic selection, academic significance of graduation thesis (design) and its relationship with the literature read, and briefly explains the purpose, focus, space-time scope, literature types and core publications of literature collection.

3. Main part. There is no fixed format, which can be formulated according to the time and space order of documents, hierarchical order, and the argumentation order of graduation thesis (design). In short, we should write according to the specific situation of graduation thesis (design), classify, summarize, analyze, compare and comment all the references used in graduation thesis (design), and pay special attention to quoting and commenting on the academic achievements of mainstream and authoritative documents to find out the shortcomings of existing achievements.