ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the nature of the literature review within a research project. It looks at why people copy other researchers words and ideas without acknowledgement. Variables are concepts or ideas that the research projects investigate and indicators are tangible things that can be used to measure the impact of a variable. If they are doing their review of the literature for an assessment as part of a module, their supervisor will have given them some recommended or indicative reading and suggested some journals that are worth looking at. To get most out of their library they must be familiar with the Dewey System, known as the Dewey Decimal Classification and the Dewey Decimal System. It is commonly assumed that with the greater accessibility of the internet and the greater sophistication of search engine software, there are many more opportunities for students to plagiarise. Wikipedia is an internet based encyclopedia that is written collaboratively by anybody who wants to contribute.
