Literature Synthesis 101: How to Synthesise In Your Literature Review - 5 Key Questions (+Examples )

Learn how to synthesise the existing literature for your literature review by addressing five key questions. In this video, we explain exactly how you can ensure that your literature review presents a strong synthesis of the existing research, as opposed to just describing what's out that. We unpack five key questions that you need to address within your literature synthesis along with clear, practical examples.
TIMESTAMPS: Literature Synthesis
00:00 Intro & overview
01:00 What does literature synthesis mean?
02:12 Question #1
03:05 Question #2
04:18 Question #3
05:46 Question #4
07:02 Question #5
08:50 Summary
09:33 Weaving the answers into your literature review
10:00 Linking it back to your research gap and methodology
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Thank you SO MUCH for this…currently planning one for research proposal and helpful!

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Excellent presentation! Brief but direct to the points.

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Brilliant lecture 🏆

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Q1) Overall, what things seem to be agreed upon by the vast majority of the literature?”
Q2) Where do the disagreements (mixed results) lie? The opportunities for further research that you are addressing
Q3) Which key theories seem to be coming up repeatedly? How are they connected or disconnected to each other? The impact of these theory landscape.They feature in the theoretical framework.
Q4) Which contexts have (and have not) been covered by the existing research? Novel contexts can be research gaps.
Q5) What types of research methodologies have (and haven’t) been used?

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Listening to these sections really took a lot of load off my shoulders

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@@GradCoach thank you