Your literature review should be part of your portfolio. It should demonstrate understanding somewhere between 10 and 20 research articles that are pertinent to your area of interest. It will likely take one of two forms:
- Breadth : Your choice of literature covers a broad range of topics within your area of interest. This will likely require you to read more papers to write well. For example, if you are interested in parallel programming languages, one paper about each of 10 languages is inadequate.
- Depth : Your choice of literature focuses on a more specific topic, but you read deeply about that topic. For example, you might be particularly keen on the Fangsnort Transform as applied to the B-Positive form when (most typically) used as an intermediate language representation. In this case, your literature review will be more targeted, but still demonstrate breadth of understanding within this (narrower) topic.
The number of articles is approximate: you may need to read more. It is unlikely you can write a good review with less.
