The life history of an academic literature review tree branch: a visual illustration

The life history of an academic literature review tree branch: a visual illustration:

To illustrate how the various ALRA academic-oriented project type deliverables are related, I depict the following visual illustration on the life history of an academic literature review tree branch in form of a diagram. This is shown as follows:

The life history depicts three main life stages: 

Main life stage 1: the embryonic stage (broken down into life stages 1 and 2)

Main life stage 2: the literature review stage (i.e. life stage 3)

Main life stage 3: the research methodology design stage (i.e. life stage 4)

It is important to note that each individual life stage has specific deliverable to produce:

Life stage 1: the research gap-translation diagram

Life stage 2: the research gap-objective table

Life stage 3: the academic literature review tree

Life stage 4: the academic literature review tree-b.

There are two additional (nice-to-have) activities that are complementary in nature:

Construction of theoretical framework A (complementary to life stage 3)

Construction of theoretical framework B (complementary to life stage 4)

In short, the life history goes through 3 main life stages, broken down into 4 life stages.

The life history diagram indicates the locations of the 6 deliverables of the agile literature review approach (the academic-oriented project type). The 6 deliverables are:

Deliverable 1. The research-gap translation diagram

Deliverable 2. The research gap-objective table

Deliverable 3. The academic literature review tree

Deliverable 4. The theoretical framework A

Deliverable 5. The academic literature review tree-b

Deliverable 6. The theoretical framework B.

Regarding the academic ideas hanging on the branch of the literature review tree (deliverable 3), together, they represent the concrete outcome of the researcher's literature review effort on the relevant academic literature (mainly academic journals, textbooks and other dissertation reports). As such, they comprise:

1. theoretical perspectives, theories, concepts and process models from the academic literature.

2. research methods, research techniques and research instruments

3. empirical findings that have reference value to inform the dissertation project methodology design and/or dissertation project findings and analysis.