Volume 17, 2022 Accepting Editor Nicole Buzzetto-Hollywood │Received: May 9, 2022│ Revised: September 14, 2022 │ Ac- cepted: September 20, 2022. Cite as: Ali, A., Pandya, S., & Varma, U . (2022). Writing doctoral dissertation literature review: Identifying the prerequisites, corequisites, and the iterative process for writing the literature. International Journal of Doctoral Stud- ies, 17, 433-458. https://doi.org/10.28945/5026 (CC BY-NC 4.0) This article is licensed to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. When you copy and redistribute this paper in full or in part, you need to provide proper attribution to it to ensure that others can later locate this work (and to ensure that others do not accuse you of plagiarism). You may (and we encour- age you to) adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any non-commercial purposes. This license does not permit you to use this material for commercial purposes. WRITING DOCTORAL DISSERTATION LITERATURE REVIEW: IDENTIFYING THE PREREQUISITES, COREQUISITES, AND THE ITERATIVE PROCESS FOR WRITING THE LITERATURE Azad Ali* Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA Azad.ali@iup.edu Shardul Pandya American National University , Salem, VA, USA drspandya@yahoo.com Umesh Varma American National University, Salem, VA, USA ucvarma@an.edu *Corresponding author ABSTRACT Aim/Purpose Identify the prerequisites, the corequisites, and the iteration processes in or- ganizing and writing the literature review chapter of doctoral dissertations Background Writing the literature review chapter of doctoral dissertations presents unique challenges. Students waste a lot of time identifying material to write, and the experience is generally that of frustration and time delay . Methodology This paper reviews literature to identify levels of information helpful for writing the literature review chapter: prerequisites, corequisites, and iteration process. Contribution The contribution of this paper is different than others that have been written about the literature review. The intended audiences for this paper are men- tors, advisors, or academies that supervise students in writing their doctoral dissertations. This paper introduces the writing of the literature review by or- ganizing the suggestions into groups of topics more familiar to academies than in other fields. The concepts of prerequisites, corequisites, and iteration are very familiar to educators; they often use them in their courses. The aca- demic curriculums are built on such concepts. Thus, grouping the discussion into these terms familiar to mentors, advisors, or doctoral dissertations super- visors will put the findings into a more helpful focus for educators that su- pervise students in writing the literature review chapter.