Study Skills for Higher Education: Report on CSR

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Study Skills for Higher Education
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3/21/2019

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Contents
Study Skills for Higher Education.............................................................................................2
Task-2: Report on CSR..............................................................................................................2
Introduction............................................................................................................................2
Literature Review’s significance, role and purpose within academic studies.......................2
Literature review on Corporate Social Responsibility...........................................................4
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Study Skills for Higher Education
Task-2: Report on CSR
Introduction
The report is based on the significance, role or purpose of the concept of literature review
(herein after referred as LR) in the context of academic studies and research. In this context,
the paper will identify what LR is as well as what it actually achieves. Besides, this report
will demonstrate the capability of summarising and critically evaluating past works related to
a research problem being investigated. Moreover, with the help of this report writing ability
to collect valuable info and ideas which can successfully guide any research will be
demonstrated. To do so, this paper will utilise a specific topic as Corporate Social
Responsibility (referred as CSR), over which the illustration of LR will be demonstrated
(Tilakasiri, 2013). In general, LR is a key step of any research to get the detailed picture of
the till day work within any chosen research area in a way that researcher or scholar can
further invent, research and conclude something useful and innovative. In this way, report is
going to evaluate the purpose of this research step of LR within academic study while
demonstrating a LR over the topic of CSR in general.
Literature Review’s significance, role and purpose within academic studies
A LR can be seen as a kind of review article because it is a scholarly paper, which comprises
the recent knowledge containing substantive findings covering theoretical as well as
methodological contributions towards a specific topic. LRs are the secondary sources, and
hence they do not cover novel or original experimental work (Younger, 2010). In order to
discuss significance of the LR, it has 3 major functions (Younger, 2010). In this context, for
conveying core knowledge and ideas to the reader over any topic LR is utilised. With the help
of LR one can pass the message to their readers that he or she is familiar with the important
theories as well as ideas. Besides, the purpose of a LR is to:
 Organize every work in the context of their contribution for effectively understand the
research problem being considered.
 Define the relation of every work of the research with the others.
 Recognize innovative ways of interpreting past research.