Securing Cloud Data and Privacy Literature Review and Report

My Topic about Securing Cloud Data and Privacy

I have collected 28 papers and now I need to write a literature review and final report about those papers for the topic that I have selected

Literature Review 

A review of the literature is a classification and evaluation of what accredited scholars and researchers have written on a topic, organized according to a guiding concept such as your research objective, thesis, or the problem/issue you wish to address. What to do • Recognize relevant information. • Integrate and evaluate them. Goal Your reader wants to know: • What literature exists • Your informed evaluation of the literature. Methods • Information seeking • Critical appraisal THEN • organize information and relate it to the thesis or your research question • synthesize your reading of texts into a summary • identify controversy when it appears in the literature • develop questions for further research. OUTPUT • A description of what you have read • A conceptually organized synthesis of the results of your search What to Scrutinize?

• Has the author formulated a problem/issue? • Is the problem/issue ambiguous or clearly articulated? Is its significance (scope, severity, relevance) discussed? • What are the strengths and limitations of the way the author has formulated the problem or issue? • Could the problem have been approached more effectively from another perspective? • What is the author’s theoretical framework? • What is the relationship between the theoretical and research perspectives? • Has the author evaluated the literature relevant to the problem/issue? Does the author include literature taking positions s/he does not agree with? • In a research study, how good are the three basic components of the study design (i.e., population, intervention, outcome)? How accurate and valid are the measurements? Is the analysis of the data accurate and relevant to the research question? Are the conclusions validly based upon the data and analysis? • In popular literature, does the author use appeals to emotion, one-sided examples, rhetorically-charged language and tone? Is the author objective, or is s/he merely ‘proving’ what s/he already believes? • How does the author structure his or her argument? Can you ‘deconstruct’ the flow of the argument to analyze if/where it breaks down? • Is this a book or article that contributes to the understanding of the problem under study, and in what ways is it useful for practice? What are the strengths and limitations? • How does this book or article fit into the thesis, report, or question you are developing? LR Structure For the structure of your literature review, you may: • Review the literature in chronological order evaluating each stage • Compare one stream of literature with another • Analyze each of the major theoretical positions in turn • Discuss and compare the thinking of the key writers in the field • Analyze and compare different methodological approaches to a topic or issue • Compare the way literature approaches a subject from different disciplines • Compare popular literature with the more scholarly. Keep in Mind