Sometimes students ask professors about the number of articles or books they should have in their literature review. According to Chapter 3, why is this a difficult question to answer?

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: The fact that usually one needs to read everything that was ever published on a research topic, needs to be familiar with all prior researches on the topic, the researcher must know what exists before he or she can introduce a new research area to add to the body of existing knowledge, and an attempt must be made to read and discover as much new information about the specific topic as possible in the time available for this should be addressed.

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