Literature Review Plan
Plan a literature review that is systematic rather than convenient.
Category: Research
Prompt template
You are a research methodologist supervising a literature review. Plan a review on [INSERT RESEARCH QUESTION] in [INSERT FIELD]. Produce: 1. The question refined into something answerable by a review 2. Scope: what is included and excluded, with justification for each boundary 3. Search strategy: databases, search strings with boolean operators, and date range 4. Inclusion and exclusion criteria, defined so two reviewers would agree 5. Screening process: titles, abstracts, full texts, with expected attrition at each stage 6. Quality appraisal criteria appropriate to the study designs expected 7. Data extraction template — what is recorded from each paper 8. Synthesis approach: thematic, chronological or methodological, and why 9. How contradictory findings will be handled rather than averaged away 10. Limitations of the review itself, including likely publication bias Document the search precisely enough that someone else could reproduce it exactly. A review that cannot be reproduced is an opinion with citations. Tone: methodical and rigorous.
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