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PATHFINDER(iii)(iv)(v)(vi)(vii)Literature review can be used to achieve the purpose of replication andalso help the researcher to delimit and define the problem. It helps tofind out whether a finding in one area of social, academic, political oreconomic life can be found or generalized in another area.Literature review indicates where there is gap in current literature onsubject of research study. This allows the researcher to identify where hiswork would fit in and what his contribution to knowledge should be.Literature review is used to provide grounding and justification for theresearcher‟s findings and conclusions. It shows that they are not strangeand are in tandem with the subject of research and are as suchlegitimate material emanating from the field of study.To lay the basis for theoretical postulations. The researcher can onlyextract theory from existing literature. This theory is the foundation onwhich his work would rest. The review of literature gives the researcherthe facility of exploring diverse but relevant theoretical directions, whichwould be the foundation of the work and guide the researcher in his owntheoretical postulations.Every field has leading figures whose works determine the colourationand direction of developments. Literature review leads the researcher torecognize these figures, their contributions and give intellectual statureand dignity to the work.INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION - NOVEMBER 2010101