Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review

Acknowledgments
Contents
General Introduction to the Volumes
Introduction to the Literature Review Volume
Orientations
	Why Review the Literature?
	Types and Characteristics of Literature Reviews
	Check Your Literature Review Knowledge
	Scholars before Researchers
	Typical Advisor Critiques of Literature Reviews
	How Can Order Be Imposed on the Literature?
	Choosing Areas to Include in the Review
Getting Started on the Literature Review
	Describing the Selection Criteria for Literature in the Review
	Meta discourse
	Citation Patterns
		Integral and Non-Integral Citations
		Citation Verb Tense and Aspect
		Reporting Verbs
		Ambiguity in Citations
Drafting, Redrafting, and Redrafting Again
Taking a Stance toward the Literature
Constructing an Original Discussion of Previous Work: Using Your Own Words
	Some Strategies for Paraphrasing
	Careful Use of Synonyms
	Summarizing
Criteria for Evaluating Literature Reviews
Some Final Thoughts to Consider
References