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Literature Review Synthesis Challenges and Strategies

Literature Review Synthesis Challenges and Strategies

When completing a Literature Review, you synthesize and integrate resources. For this Discussion, you will reflect on some of the challenges and strategies that you used as you began to synthesize and integrate the resources for your literature review.

To prepare:

  • Review the steps you used to begin the literature review.
  • Consider the difficulties you faced in writing the literature review. 
  • Think about the strategies that you used to deal with these challenges
  • .Post an explanation of the challenges you encountered as you began to synthesize and integrate the resources for your literature review. Describe how you addressed these challenges and offer at least one strategy to your colleagues for writing a literature review.
  • Resources

  • Walden University Writing Center. (2017, March 13). Literature review essentials: Identify themesLinks to an external site. [Blog post]. http://waldenwritingcenter.blogspot.com/2017/03/li...
    (previously read in Week 5)

  • University of Washington Psychology Writing Center. (2017). Writing a literature review in psychologyLinks to an external site.. https://psych.uw.edu/storage/writing_center/litrev...
    (previously read in Week 5)

  • Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). Webinars: Graduate level expectationsLinks to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/masters-resourc...
    (previously read in Week 5)

  • Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). Literature reviewsLinks to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/a...