Writing a Literature Review

By Roy F. Baumeister. Demystifying Academic Writing, 2000

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Literature review or research synthesis is an essential component in research field. Novice and student researchers usually take it as a required burden in research, and present haphazardly under sub-topics in research. There is the problem of application and correlating LR with their studies. The main purpose of this paper is to present introduction of LR/research synthesis, its functions and methods in research. LR/research synthesis consists of searching relevant literature, discussing the findings and evidence, correlating the individual studies, interpreting critically, and synthesizing them to build an argument for future research. It is a review article based on qualitative research, but not based on primary data. This paper contributes to answer the questions of writing a LR or synthesis paper, and becomes a useful reference material to novice and student researchers of higher education.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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How to Write a Literature Review Paper? (2016, unknown): “The perception that a review paper is of less value than a research paper (Steward, 2004) may also result from the confusion between the general overview paper and the critical review paper.”
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Challenges and Recommendations of Literature Search in Information Systems Research (2015, background): “Thus, novice researchers will find it useful to begin a review by reading sources that are likely to provide topic summaries and overviews of the key issues in the area they wish to research (Baker, 2000), such as extant review papers in their own or adjacent areas (Boell & Cecez-Kecmanovic, 2014).”
How to Do a Systematic Review: A Best Practice Guide for Conducting and Reporting Narrative Reviews, Meta-Analyses, and Meta-Syntheses. (2019, background): “The primary reason is the desire to synthesize a body of evidence on a topic in order to achieve robust and broad conclusions and implications (Baumeister 2013).”
The Location Choice of Foreign Direct Investments: Empirical Evidence and Methodological Challenges (2017, unknown): “…Siegel et al. (2013), Spies (2010), Strange et al. (2009), Sun et al. (2002), Tan and Meyer (2011), Villaverde and Maza (2012), Wakasugi (2005), Wei et al. (1999), Wheeler and Mody (1992), Woodward (1992), Wright et al. (2005), Wu (1999), Wu and Radbone (2005), Wu and Strange (2000), Yuan…”
Synthesizing information systems knowledge: A typology of literature reviews (2015, background): “According to Baker [15], it represents an ‘‘essential first step and foundation when undertaking a research project’’ (p.”
Reconstructing the giant: On the importance of rigour in documenting the literature search process (2009, unknown): “A literature review seeks to uncover the sources relevant to a topic under study and, thus, makes a vital contribution to the relevance and rigour of research: On the one hand, relevance is improved by avoiding the reinvestigation of what is already known (cf. Baker 2000, p. 219).”
Where you search determines what you find: the effects of bibliographic databases on systematic reviews (2021, unknown): “The benefits of systematic reviews are advocated in the literature (Baumeister, 2013), and assume the potential to deliver a (near) comprehensive picture of existing evidence on a specific review question (see Briner & Denyer, 2012, for examples on narrowing down review questions).”