The document provides a comprehensive guide on conducting systematic literature reviews, detailing the importance and methodology involved. It outlines the steps in the review process, from identifying key terms and locating relevant literature to analyzing, organizing, and writing the review. Additionally, it emphasizes the ethical considerations and proper structuring required in literature reviews.

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Systematic Literature Review
Literature Review: The Concept
Literature Review: The Concept
• An important section of a research proposal/
article/dissertation/thesis
• Written summary of literatures
(journal articles, books and other documents)
• Link between past and current knowledge
• Describes past and current information of
research
• Documenting a need for proposed study.
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What is it ?
Why ?
How ?
Systematic
Literature
Review –
FOCAL POINTS
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Purposes of

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Writing of Systematic Review
Writing of Systematic Review
Step
Step-
-by
by-
-step Guidelines
step Guidelines
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Systematic Review: Process

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Reporting the Review
Identifying Key Terms
Identifying Key Terms
Locating Related Literature
Locating Related Literature
Analyzing & Checking Relevance
Analyzing & Checking Relevance
Organizing the Literature
Organizing the Literature
Writing the Review
Writing the Review
Systematic Literature Review
Conducting
Review
Documenting
Review

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Identifying Key
Terms
Write a preliminary working title,
Select a few important words that capture the
essence of the study.
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Related
Literature
Find it
Review it
Use it
Manage it
Locating Literature

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Fink, A. (2018). Conducting literature research
reviews. Thousands Oaks, CA, p 3.
What is Literature?
‘…a collection of all scholarly writings
on a topic..’
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Sources of Research Literature
Sources of Research Literature
Encyclopedias
Dictionaries and Glossaries of Terms
Handbooks
Authentic Books
Journals
Different Specialized Indexes
Government documents
Electronic Sources
Newspapers & Pamphlets
Conference Proceedings
Thesis/Dissertation

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DIFFERENT SOURCES OF
DIFFERENT SOURCES OF
INFORMATION
INFORMATION
Information
Source
What it Does? Examples
General Source
General Source Provides an overview of
a topic
Leads to where more
information can be
found.
Daily newspapers, news
weeklies, popular periodicals
and magazines, Reader’s Digest
Guide to Periodical Literature
Secondary Source
Secondary Source Provides a level of
information “once
removed” from the
original work.
Books on specific subjects and
reviews of research, scholarly
books,
Primary Source
Primary Source The original reports of
the original work /
experience.
Journals, abstracts, research
articles and Educational
Resources Information Centre
(ERIC)

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Identification of Research

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Study Selection
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Analyzing & Checking the
Relevance
1.Topic Relevance
2.Individual and Site Relevance
3.Problem Relevance
4.Accessibility Relevance
If you answer YES
YES to these questions,
the literature is relevant!
Determining Relevance!
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Copying & Filing
Review Grid
Literature Map
Organizing the
Literature

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Review Grid: An Idea
Review Grid: An Idea
Author/
Author/
Researc
Researc
her,
her,
Titl
Title
e,
,
Journal/
Journal/
Book/…
Book/…
Year of
Year of
Publicati
Publicati
on
on
Area/
Area/
Theme
Theme
Purpose/
Purpose/
Objective
Objective
Type of
Type of
Study
Study
Design
Design
Findin
Findin
gs
gs
2021 Effectiveness
of co-operative
teaching..
Experiment
al study
2019 Relationship
between co-
operative
teaching,
mental health &
achievement
of…
Descriptive
study
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Organizing the Literature Search:
the Tree Diagram
subtopic
Topic
subtopic
subtopic
subtopic
subtopic
subtopic
subtopic

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Organization of Literature
Organization of Literature
Broader topics
Subtopics
Proposed study
A general organization looks like a funnel
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Abstracting:
•Research problem,
•Objectives/ main focus
•Hypotheses/research questions,
•Data collection procedure/ Experiments
•Results of the study/findings
Style Manual:
Appropriate style & format (depends on specific
discipline)
Writing the Literature
Review

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Format of a Literature Review
Literature
Review
Format
1.
Introduction
Introduction
2.
Body
Body
3.
Conclusion
Conclusion
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Rough Draft
Final Draft
Edit
Edit Again & Validate
Writing Review Report

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Concluding Statement
narrates comparison/contrast among
literatures
explains why the current literature is deficient
explains why further study is needed
ends with a statement of the proposed study
Some Suggestions
Researcher must avoid Plagiarism
Plagiarism and Fabrication
Fabrication
Researcher must avoid using too Complicated
Terms.
It is important to separate the literature review
from the rest of the study.
The literature review should be perfectly structured.
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Ethical
Ethical
Issues
Issues

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Summing Up
Step-by Step Guidelines for Writing Systematic Literature Review
Step 1: Decide on a topic
Step 2: Identify the literature that you will review
Step 3: Analyze the literature
Overview the articles
Group the articles into categories (e.g. into topics and
subtopics and chronologically within each subtopic)
Take notes
Step 4: Use evidence & be selective
Step 5: Use quotes sparingly
Step 6: Summarize the literature in table or concept map format
Step 7: Synthesize the literature prior to writing your review
Step 8: Writing the review
Step 9: Use caution when paraphrasing
Step 10: Develop a coherent essay
Step 11: Revise, revise, revise
[Source: Galvan, J. (2006): Writing literature reviews: a guide for students
of the behavioural sciences (3rd ed.), Glendale, CA: Pyrczak Publishing.]
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Useful websites for systematic reviews
• The Cochrane Library www.cochrane.org
• The Joanna Briggs Institute
www.joannabriggs.edu.au/pubs/systematic_reviews.php
• The Campbell Collaboration www.campbellcollaboration.org
• The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine www.cebm.net
• The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd
• Bandolier www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier
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