https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/ReviewofLiterature.html

Litrerary Review 

The literary review guide provided to us by the University of Wisconsin-Madison advises the following:

-  first, one should get acquainted with the peculiarities of the literary reviews formats relating to their subjects because those may vary

- in the introduction, it is important to identify the topic and provide the context, as well as point the overall trends of the matter and writer's reasoning for the relevance of his or her work

- the body should include group research studies, summary of individual studies, have strong "umbrella" sentences at beginnings of paragraphs, "signposts" throughout, and brief "so what" summary sentences at intermediate points in the review

- the conclusion should include the summarizations of major contributions to the topic and point out major methodological flaws, gaps and inconsistencies of the research to lay the importance of the future studies of the subjecy

- at the very end, one should provide some insight into the relationship between the central topic of the literature review and a larger area of study