From reading the literature to writing a literature review - Ep. 38

In today's episode we continue on the topic of the literature review. In previous episodes, we discussed our reading habits, and today we take a deeper dive into what comes after reading all these interesting articles: writing the literature review. This episode focuses on writing the literature review section for a journal article as well as writing the literature review chapter of the PhD thesis.

We discuss several ways of processing the information from the articles we read, and how to structure this information into a coherent review. We also discuss what literature reviews are not, and some common pitfalls in writing a literature review. We round off with a discussion on what is important in writing a literature review, and some tips from the perspective of a reviewer and journal editor.

References

Episode 14: Reading the literatureEpisode 16: How to search for articlesEpisode 17: Systematic reviews: interview with Jonathan GuillemotEndnoteZoteroMendeleyPapersBibtexRaul Pacheco-Vega: Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography)Raul Pacheco-Vega: Writing your literature review based on the “Cross-Reference” column of the Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dump (CSED)Raul Pacheco-Vega: Literature reviews, annotated bibliographies and conceptual synthetic tablesPhD Talk: Organizing your literature reviewPhD Talk: Top 3 tips for literature review success