A literature review in a paper is not just a place to show off how much you’ve read. (Neither is your reference section.)
- If you want to know what to put in your literature review, and where, and how [and whether your lit review should be a separate section], an ideal place for GRIPS students is Professor Petchko’s How to Write about Economics and Public Policy, chapters 11 and 12. Say no more! Students can get the e-book version from the GRIPS Library, in the e-book section.
2. If you want a longer, gentler glide path with lots of exercises, Swales and Feak’s (2009) Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review (U. Michigan) is a complete resource at the foundation level.
3. Far more tool-oriented and IT grounded is Raul Pacheco‘s blog, within which there are pages like
The literature review
http://www.raulpacheco.org/resources/literature-reviews/
The rhetorical precis
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/10/using-the-rhetorical-precis-for-literature-reviews-and-conceptual-syntheses/
Literature review tools
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2017/01/literature-reviews-annotated-bibliographies-and-conceptual-synthetic-tables/
The conceptual synthesis excel dump
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/06/synthesizing-different-bodies-of-work-in-your-literature-review-the-conceptual-synthesis-excel-dump-technique/
The annotated bibliography
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2017/04/writing-an-annotated-bibliography/
Theoretical frameworks
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2018/09/writing-theoretical-frameworks-analytical-frameworks-and-conceptual-frameworks/
Lawrie Hunter 