Lit review

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A literature review is not going to be on your exact topic. The whole point of research is to study something that hasn’t been researched before. You are studying willingness to fly based on age of pilot, you would start by doing some research on age, i.e., how does age affect decision making and perceptions? Are older people more likely to choose A over B or B over A? Use that literature to help guide your hypothesis. Then, look at what other research has been done in the field of willingness to fly. There are plenty of papers to cite.

Also, don’t make claims or matter-of-fact statements without citations to back it up. Research is about studying the data and not interjecting your own opinion beforehand. A literature review is a review of all the current literature on the topic, not your opinion on the topic. In the discussion section later, you can infer from the data that something may be happening because of xyz reason, and that is your educated inference, but do make bold claims out of thin air.

A lit review provides a foundation for the study and helps guide your predictions/hypothesis of what you anticipate to come of your data. It is a step-by-step process that involves the identification of published and unpublished work from secondary data sources on the topic of interest, the evaluation of this work in relation to the problem, and the documentation of this work. It ensures that no important variable is overlooked in the process of defining the problem.

Keys to a good literature review:
Ensure important variables likely to influence study are not left out
Establish a clear idea of what variables will be most important to consider (parsimony), why they are important, and how they should be investigated to solve the problem
Help the development of the theoretical framework and hypothesis for examination
Add precision and clarity to the problem statement
Enhance testability and replicability of the current research findings
Avoid the risk of “reinventing the wheel”
Determine that the problem to be investigated is perceived by the scientific community as relevant and significant
Literature Review Guidelines and Examples
Firstly, please review the examples provided. There is no set word count or page count, but you need to write enough to cover the topic in detail, and it needs to be a comprehensive analysis of all the aspects involved in your topic. The same goes for references. You need to do a thorough literature review to see what already exists in this field and cite all relevant materials. Some topics to consider as part of your literature review (see what else has been written on these topics): consumer perceptions in aviation, trust, stereotypes (age, gender, country of origin: depending on your topic), the Willingness to Fly Scale (written by Stephen Rice and Rian Mehta), and so on.

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