Literature Review Research Strategies

Some variations include the following:

Argumentative Review - This form examines literature selectively in order to support or refute an argument, deeply embedded assumption, or philosophical problem already established in the literature.…

Integrative Review - Considered a form of research that reviews, critiques, and synthesizes representative literature on a topic in an integrated way such that new frameworks and perspectives on the topic are generated….

Historical Review - …. Historical reviews are focused on examining research throughout a period of time, often starting with the first time an issue, concept, theory, phenomena emerged in the literature, then tracing its evolution within the scholarship of a discipline. The purpose is to place research in a historical context…

Methodological Review - A review does not always focus on what someone said [content], but how they said it [method of analysis]. …

Systematic Review - This form consists of an overview of existing evidence pertinent to a clearly formulated research question, which uses pre-specified and standardized methods to identify and critically appraise relevant research, and to collect, report, and analyse data from the studies that are included in the review…

Theoretical Review - The purpose of this form is to concretely examine the corpus of theory that has accumulated in regard to an issue, concept, theory, phenomena.…

For full descriptions of the above types, look down the page on Organizing Your Social Science Research Paper: The Literature Review http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/literaturereview

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