Earlyface

In a complete project in the academia, chapter two has always been slated for literature review or what some people will call review of related literature.
 
It involves a detailed research on previous works, opinions, recommendations etc. Below are Nine (9) steps to writing a comprehensive literature review for academic project.

Nine Steps To Writing A Literature Review
1. Find a Working Topic
Look at your specific area of study. Think about what interests you, and what is fertile ground for study. Talk to your professor, brainstorm, and read lecture notes and recent issues of periodicals in the field.

2. Review the Literature
Using keywords, search a computer database. It is best to use at least two databases relevant to your discipline
Remember that the reference lists of recent articles and reviews can lead to valuable papers
Make certain that you also include any studies contrary to your point of view

3. Focus Your Topic Narrowly and Select Papers Accordingly
Consider the following:

What interests you?
What interests others?
What time span of research will you consider?
Choose an area of research that is due for a review.

4. Read the Selected Articles Thoroughly and Evaluate Them
What assumptions do most/some researchers seem to be making?
What methodologies do they use? what testing procedures, subjects, material tested?
Evaluate and synthesize the research findings and conclusions drawn
Note experts in the field: names/labs that are frequently referenced
Note conflicting theories, results, methodologies
Watch for popularity of theories and how this has/has not changed over time

5. Organize the Selected Papers By Looking For Patterns and By Developing Subtopics
Note things such as:
 
Findings that are common/contested
Two or three important trends in the research
The most influential theories

6. Develop a Working Thesis
Write a one or two sentence statement summarizing the conclusion you have reached about the major trends and developments you see in the research that has been done on your subject.

7. Organize Your Own Paper Based on the Findings From Steps 4 & 5
Develop headings/subheadings. If your literature review is extensive, find a large table surface, and on it place post-it notes or filing cards to organize all your findings into categories. Move them around if you decide that (a) they fit better under different headings, or (b) you need to establish new topic headings.

8. Write the Body of the Paper
Follow the plan you have developed above, making certain that each section links logically to the one before and after, and that you have divided your sections by themes or subtopics, not by reporting the work of individual theorists or researchers.

9. Look At What You Have Written; Focus On Analysis, Not Description
Look at the topic sentences of each paragraph. If you were to read only these sentences, would you find that your paper presented a clear position, logically developed, from beginning to end? If, for example, you find that each paragraph begins with a researcher’s name, it might indicate that, instead of evaluating and comparing the research literature from an analytical point of view, you have simply described what research has been done. This is one of the most common problems with student literature reviews.

So if your paper still does not appear to be defined by a central, guiding concept, or if it does not critically analyse the literature selected, then you should make a new outline based on what you have said in each section and paragraph of the paper, and decide whether you need to add information, to delete off-topic information, or to restructure the paper entirely.