Add on to previous Literature Review Section with further literature: Discuss Theory/theoretical framework or conceptual framework Related literature: review of previous studies This section of the proposal, which you will have essentially completed, situates your study in the existing literature. How does it follow and build on prior studies? What has been found in prior literature? What’s not known? How does your study fill the gap(s)? Present your review of previous studies, which many include 1-2 theories and/or theoretical/ conceptual articles as well as the empirical studies that you reviewed. It should be clearer to the reader why you include each study and how each bears on the formulation of your own question. Demonstrate your ability to synthesize and analyze the existing literature (not to list all articles studied).
