https://www.coursera.org/learn/sciwrite/home/week/7
Module 7.1: writing review articles
Goals:
1. Synthesize and evaluate the recent primary literature on a topic
2. Summarize the current state of knowledge on a topic
3. Address controversies
4. Provide a comprehensive list of citations
Non-systematic vs. Systematic reviews vs. Meta-analysis
Non-systematic:
- Sometimes called a "narrative" review
- May not be comprehensive
- Qualitative review
Systematic reviews:
- Attempts to find and summarize all relevant studies. May even include unpublished work.
- Follows a rigorous search strategy using pre-defined exclusion and inclusion criteria. Searches multiple databases.
- Evaluates the quality of each study using rigorous, pre-defined criteria. (often quantitative)
Meta-analysis:
- A systematic review that additionally uses statistical techniques to pool data from independent studies (sometimes including unpublished studies)
Tips for Review Articles
- Start with a more broad search, and then narrow it.
- Clearly define your thesis or theme
- Invest time getting organized
- Divide the review into sections with separate headings
- Consider putting information in tables, figures, and/or sidebars
- Write for a broad audience
Abstract
- write at last
Introduction
- Clearly state the aim of the review
The body of the paper
- Divide into sections
- Summarize the literature, organized based on methodology or theme
- Analyze, interpret, critique, and synthesize studies
Conclusion and future directions
- what recommendations can you make?
- What gaps remain in the literature? what future studies would help fill in these gaps?
course leader's experience
1.讀每篇paper的時候寫notes
2.標記關注的sections和subsections