Rather than trying to recreate the wheel, I hope someone could point me in the right direction. I am preparing a seminar-type course to guide highly capable high school students through the process of conducting a systematic literature review on an academic topic of their choosing. I have some resources already, but I want to see what is available and found to be useful by others from a pedagogical perspective. I want them to understand the basics, from both a philosophical and practical standpoint. The goal is to help them assess the state of the art within their chosen topic and synthesize key trends and deficiencies. They seek careers in research (both natural and human/social sciences). What resources (in English and/or Chinese) might be available? College- and/or graduate-level resources are appreciated as well.
Hello Barnabas. From my personal perspective, writing a literature review is not an easy task. Writers must be acquainted with the topic to look for relevant sources and be able to quote them appropriately. The best way, in my opinion, is to expose them to well written academic papers and show them how authors have developed the literature review. You can let students build glossaries or phrase banks, where they can write recurrent phrases used to refer to academics' works and so on. You can ask students to write down synonyms (e.g., "XX posits that", "YY suggests that", "ZZ reports that". You can show how authors take a stance and/or reveal their "preferences" in the literature review. I hope this helps.
Papaioannou, D., Sutton, A., & Booth, A. (2016). Systematic approaches to a successful literature review. Systematic approaches to a successful literature review, 1-336.
Hameed Gannoun Thank you for your recommendation. This is very helpful. I found the link here: Book Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review
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