first look at what exactly you are addressing and then you look for what or how other researchers have addressed, you analysis them before you put them on paper ( from my point of view )
first look at what exactly you are addressing and then you look for what or how other researchers have addressed, you analysis them before you put them on paper ( from my point of view )
I have found Dr. Andrew Denney and Dr. Richard Tweksbury's work very interesting, informative and valuable in coaching researchers on how to effectively write their literature review. They are here on RG. Kindly download the paper uploaded on their profile pages. Best regards
There are different levels of review papers, 3 to my knowledge. You need to understand what level you want to write at, then read in the area of interest extensively. If systematic, be sure to note exclusion and inclusion criteria. All better have a specific time you are covering. eg, from 1985 to 2017 or so.
Look up different journal instructions to author sections to understand specs for reviews for various journals
The first step is to consider literatures related and relevant to your research work, the split the literatures into subheadings be sure that all sub-headings are relevant to your current research, subsequently place all reviewed literatures under your subheadings.
Galvan, J. (2006). Writing literature reviews: a guide for students of the behavioral sciences ( 3rd ed.). Glendale, CA: Pyrczak Publishing.
Step 1: Review APA guidelines
Read through the links provided below on APA guidelines so that you become familiar with the common core elements of how to write in APA style: in particular, pay attention to general document guidelines (e.g. font, margins, spacing), title page, abstract, body, text citations, quotations.
Step 2: Decide on a topic
It will help you considerably if your topic for your literature review is the one on which you intend to do your final M.Ed. project, or is in some way related to the topic of your final project. However, you may pick any scholarly topic.
Step 3: Identify the literature that you will review
Step 4: Analyze the literature
Once you have identified and located the articles for your review, you need to analyze them and organize them before you begin writing:
Overview the articles: Skim the articles to get an idea of the general purpose and content of the article (focus your reading here on the abstract, introduction and first few paragraphs, the conclusion of each article. Tip: as you skim the articles, you may want to record the notes that you take on each directly into RefWorks in the box for User 1. You can take notes onto note cards or into a word processing document instead or as well as using RefWorks, but having your notes in RefWorks makes it easy to organize your notes later.
Group the articles into categories (e.g. into topics and subtopics and chronologically within each subtopic). Once again, it's useful to enter this information into your RefWorks record. You can record the topics in the same box as before (User 1) or use User 2 box for the topic(s) under which you have chosen to place this article.
Take notes
Step 5: Summarize the literature in table or concept map format
Step 6: Synthesize the literature prior to writing your review
Step 7: Writing the review (Galvan, 2006: 81-90)
Step 8: Developing a coherent essay (Galvan, 2006: 91-96)