

The Literature Review & background Template
1. What is your overall subject area, topic or problem area?
100 words
2. Who are the key players in my field?
What are the main systems, technologies and approaches?
Who are the main companies and academics?
Who are the governing bodies and companies?
250 words
3. What are the main ideas/debates in my field?
What are the main problems and arguments?
How do these effect people?
250 words
4. How have these ideas and approach to solving the problem changed over time?
What are some of the problems?
What solutions have been proposed?
300 words
5. What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of existing research?
What’s systems do you like
What systems do you not like?
300 words
6. You proposed solution/software solutions?
What is your proposed solution?
What will your contribution be? How will it be different?
What makes it different from other approaches
What are you going to do differently?
300 words