Writing a literature review

While writing research papers, students are required to write a literature review. Although there have been many articles published on the process of how to write literature review, students and instructors are still facing some difficulties when it comes to the structure of a literature review. This article presents efficient and straightforward steps on how to teach students to write an appropriate literature review and alleviate students’ anxiety in the process of designing literature review. This very study has been framed around following steps, such as: understanding what is a literature review (LR), analyzing synthesis matrix for LR, essential structure and approaches for writing literature review.