DIS9903 Course Guide

Writing a faulty literature review is one of many ways to derail a dissertation. This article summarizes some pivotal information on how to write a high-quality dissertation literature review.

After you've selected a topic, one of the first major tasks is writing the literature review — the section some experts say is the most difficult and time-consuming.

How is synthesis done, and how can we teach it? To approach these questions, I start by examining synthesis, move to the kinds of information that must be synthesized in a literature review, and then consider how the skills of synthesis might be fostered.

This article discusses how to organize and write an integrative literature review and cites examples of published integrative literature reviews that illustrate how this type of research has made substantive contributions to the knowledge base of human resource development.