Teaching Students to Write Literature Reviews: A Meta-Analytic Model
- 1 April 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Teaching of Psychology
- Vol. 25 (2) , 102-105
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15328023top2502_4
Abstract
We present an integrated model for teaching students to write psychology literature reviews. Students receive instruction in a sophomore-level research methods class about 5 writing tasks: (a) focusing research topics by linking several variables in a computer literature search, (b) systematically coding information from selected studies, (c) developing common measures to describe outcomes in the selected studies, (d) searching for potential variables that moderate those outcomes, and (e) evaluating research quality. We use these tasks, derived from meta-analysis, to teach students to write creative, integrated literature reviews. We argue that such instruction, presented early in undergraduates' training, prepares students to write formal papers in advanced courses.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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