MED-EAP-Video-5 What do you think are the main differences between literature review and introduction? by Daisy ZOU

sunnyxianni — 2019-02-18 07:15:35 UTC

The main differences between literature review and introduction is that introduction defines the title, gives the background and provide significance of the research, but the literature review more focus on the previous work as well as theories, would be more academic.

The main differences between Introduction and Literature review

yukichoi159 — 2019-02-18 07:16:46 UTC

Introduction is a prior part that generally introduces what topic is The author going to write, including contextualised justification, thesis statement and text plan.
Literature Review is that The authors categorize and summarize The important ideas related to their writing topic via reviewing The previous articles of others. And then raise their hypothesis or questions they want to figure out.

2019-02-18 07:17:06 UTC

Jiang Fangrong
Introduction is very general and introduce the outline and basic information of the essay or article. However, the literature review contain all the previous academic information and content that related to the research question.

jonathanflu1224 — 2019-02-18 07:18:08 UTC

Introduction: Definition of the title, significance of the research
Literature Review: History of related research.

Main Differences

s1129922 — 2019-02-18 07:20:20 UTC

introduction: the definition of the title and what makes it interesting, it belongs to the must read part.
literature review: tell readers the history of related research, but it is nor so necessary to read.

Xu Jing

xujing19960606 — 2019-02-18 07:26:36 UTC

The introduction is mainly about the main contents of the paper, while the literature review is mainly about the the results of previous relavant research. And the author may identify the research gap in literature review.

literature review mainly focus on the writer's critical thinking about the results, significance, limitations of those previous studies and then gets the research questions or hypothesis from the review.

poteryaikokirill — 2019-02-18 07:26:51 UTC

introduction briefly describes the field, background, thesis structure. ——(shen mengna)

Zhu Jiaxiang

2019-02-18 07:30:01 UTC

Introduction gives reader the whole outline about the research and research background; the literature review offers readers some research findings done by other researchers.

s1130128 — 2019-02-18 07:30:45 UTC

Literature review usually comes after the Introduction which is not necessary to read when reading academic articles as it is about the past research works from other researchers. It is only useful when you want to read the extra related articles. However, the introduction part is very important as it gives the readers the definition of the title, significance of the research and the overview idea of the article. Therefore, the introduction part is the must read part.

Introduction includes the definition of the topic, and address the importance of the research, while literature review is about the grouping and conclusion of the previous work done in this field.

zackchoinhk — 2019-02-18 07:35:06 UTC

The former is in the must-read list, while the latter is optional, it can be read only when we are trying to get more articles related.

s1129973 — 2019-02-18 07:35:08 UTC

introduction is at the beginning of a text, which provide the main text to the readers; while literature review is the second part in an article, which critically evaluates the previous research on the selected research area and
identifies the research gap.

xuguiwu6 — 2019-02-18 07:38:19 UTC

Introduction briefly gives the outline and the background of the essay or article while the literature review provides readers w some research findings done by other authors.

liuyangzhk — 2019-02-18 07:40:22 UTC

I think literature review give writing theory support to writer. It will help writer get some new finding in writing process, literature review give some history information relevant topic of writing. But introduction, it mentions about yourself writing to reader

The main difference between them is that they have different purposes. The purpose of an introduction is to briefly introduce the main contents while the purpose of LR is to review, summarize, categorize and critically evaluate researches which are related to the research topic. (Wang Xu)

2019-02-18 07:42:07 UTC

wu jiawen

carmen0810ng — 2019-02-18 07:50:01 UTC

literature review is the works form the other authors from the past and it's not necessary to read but the introduction is very important part of the article. It gives the background of the research.

(QINWEIYI)The main difference between introduction and literature review is their purpose; the purpose of an introduction is to briefly introduce the text to the readers whereas the purpose of a literature review is to review and critically evaluate the existing research on a selected research area.

2019-02-18 07:53:36 UTC

louise11299773 — 2019-02-18 07:56:24 UTC

The purpose of the introduction is to brief the reader on the text, while the purpose of the literature review is to review and critically evaluate existing research in selected research areas

2019-02-18 07:57:38 UTC

To be accurate, LR and Introduction are two different part of an article. LR shows authors’ summary and understanding of previous literature about the topic. Introduction includes the definition and significance of the topic and sometimes the outline of the following parts.
Some authors, however, combine LR into Intro.

2019-02-18 08:00:31 UTC

I think the introduction is to give the briefly outline about the content,and it is at the beginning of the whole text.While the literature review is to digest the previous works and to summarize it by critical thinking.It have different purposes.(Wen Fuying)

Dai Youpei

2019-02-18 08:05:35 UTC

Introduction includes the filed，background，and thesis structures.
Literature review includes the new findings，subject coverage，gap，aim，questions or hypothesis.
The biggest difference is that no citations are needed in the introduction but many ciatations should included in the literature review.

Tan Yawen

2019-02-18 08:25:09 UTC

Both literature review and introduction are the different parts of a whole research article, so there are different functions between two of them.
Firstly, literature review usually focus on the history of the related field, which means that it needs to include the work and opinions of the major researchers and writers in this field. However, they should not be just listed or presented directly without any interpretation; instead, the author’s own ideas need to be offered by classifying and summarizing in this part in order to help readers understand the development of this academic field.
Besides, introduction puts emphasis on the context where the research is conducted. There are some key points in this part: background of the area, the definitions of concepts and terms, the research aims and research questions, the theoretical or conceptual framework, and the significance of the work. More importantly, it has the function to connect the following part of the writing.

Chi Yeung

2019-02-18 08:29:32 UTC

The purpose of an introduction is to give the readers an impression of the rest of the paper. The writer wants to grab the attention of the readers by displaying an engaging and concise introduction, as well as showing to the readers why this research is important. It also tells the readers what they will encounter in the rest of the paper.

A literature review looks at the background of the topic. It identifies what we know and what we do not know, through a critical analysis of published work, thus allowing a research gap to be determined.

yingcaizhai — 2019-02-18 08:32:43 UTC

Introduction is only the brief part in the essay, which include some many things, like background, basic information. For literature review, it’s the most important part in the essay. The research questions need to be carried out.

2019-02-18 09:06:39 UTC

（s11301186-zhangxia)More specifically,literature review is academic. is to systematically identify,arrage and analyze the literature related to the research questions.

Wang Hao

2019-02-18 13:09:15 UTC

these two parts have different functions in a research report. literature review uses previous research to justify the research problem, while introduction gives readers a outline of the research.

Introduction and literature review are two parts of a research article. Introduction is a must read part for readers to get basic information about the title, topic and writing purposes and even the organization of the contents, while the literature review demonstrates the history of previous researches, identifies the research gap and finally raise an hypothesis or research questions.

crystal2018hk — 2019-02-18 13:33:55 UTC

ZANG YIFOU

zszyifou — 2019-02-18 14:41:57 UTC

As usual, the place of introduction is often at the beginning of paper, aiming at introducing the topic, background and the structure of the paper. Literature review is located after the introduction, focusing on previous research and doing a summary on what have been researched before. Introduction is a must-read section whereas literature review is less important.

bananasevenone — 2019-02-18 15:11:00 UTC

The main difference between introduction and literature review is their purpose; the purpose of an introduction is to briefly introduce the text to the readers whereas the purpose of a literature review is to review and critically evaluate the existing research on a selected research area. Introduction will have information such as background/context to the paper, outline of key issues, thesis statement, aims, and purpose of the paper and definition of terms and concepts. Literature Review will have summaries, reviews, critical evaluations, and comparisons of selected research studies.

zengyanfeifaye — 2019-02-19 09:11:40 UTC

An Introduction is best used to present contextual or prerequisite information that is important or essential to understand the main body of your thesis. Perhaps there are some historical developments that set the stage for your research questions or thesis. Perhaps there are some debates over key terms or scope of your subfield. Perhaps you are bringing together several disciplines, and you need to explain which aspects of each discipline you are including and not including.

A Literature Review builds a conceptual structure that ties together all the key ideas from all the relevant literature. By "conceptual structure" I mean an organized way of linking individual ideas together so that their relative importance and interrelations are clear and obvious to the reader. What are the main ideas? What ideas support these main ideas? What are the contradictory ideas? On what basis to people decide what ideas or positions to support or oppose?

Introduction, as a part of a paper, is to guide the readers to gain a general ideal bout the main content and structure of the whole paper. Literature review, which can stand on its own or act as a part of a paper, is mainly about summarizing and evaluating others’ research.

liumengrui — 2019-02-19 09:28:49 UTC

s11300912 — 2019-02-21 02:38:49 UTC

 In my opinion, Introduction is much more important than literature review for readers during searching references for their own research. Introduction concludes the main content and structures of the article which is necessary to be recognized. Literature review is just useful for us to find more related research and understand the current situation of this area. Researchers could choose whether to use this article after reading Introduction. If you are not interested in it, It is not necessary to read the literature review.

FENG Huanying

2019-02-22 15:29:26 UTC

Introduction provides the main background information about the topic to be discussed in the paper, usually including the significance of this search to justify the study within a context. And it also presents thesis statement. Literature review is a review on the previous work done by other researchers on the same topic or important concepts in the paper, then the research gap and research questions can be proposed consequently.

YANG XINGYYUE

yangxingyue2018 — 2019-02-25 09:50:34 UTC

I think the most differences between literature review and introducation is their purpose. The indtroduction only illustrates the berief idea and basic background. But literature review foucuses on theory and evaluation.

The difference between introduction and literature review

17706440336jfr — 2019-04-10 09:17:15 UTC

The introduction part states the purpose of the thesis and the structure of the paper. It also bears the function of attracting readers' interest in reading.

The literature review is a summary of the relevant research areas, based on previous research.

SUNXIUTING(11301370)

2019-04-13 12:57:37 UTC

Introduction is an introducing part of the passage aiming to tell the audience what the passage is about, how the structure is and arise audience's attention.
Literature Reveiw is a part of research paper summarizing related research information and ideas. It is a review of the research related and it is often where authors find research gap.