INTRODUCTION

Literature review offers lots of benefits to researcher. However, for the purpose of this post I will like to be direct. Below are few benefits of Literature review to researchers:

1. A thorough exploration of the literature review will help to articulate our own research problems, objectives, as well as formulating our research questions or hypothesis.
2. It helps to know the existing GAPS
3. It helps to notices the important concepts and variables and how they were operationalized
4. It widens the researcher knowledge of the problem
5. It gives researchers detailed knowledge of the method and design that he can adopt or use new ones.
6. It helps the researcher to arrive at picking a suitable scope
7. It suggested theories previously used