The Brundtland Commission defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (1, p. 45)
Please notice how the author defines key terms using the pre-existing literature. It is hard to come up with a precise definition (in and of itself a separate research, by the way), and, thus, we tend to borrow definitions from the literature.
Precise definitions = Precise research = Better grades
Thus, be sure to define key terms in your literature review section.
Please share a definition of key terms from your research and literature sources. Something like this works, 'Baek (2018) defines xxx as ....
