Literature Review

Research

Critical synthesis of existing scholarship that maps agreements, debates, gaps, and tensions — not a summary of each source in turn; Swales's CARS model structures one as establishing the territory, finding the niche, then occupying it.

A second entry for this term. The fuller version, with everything from both, is at Literature Review.

Deeper treatment: this term also has a full entry in the Business Library.

Related terms

• Abbreviation
• Abstract
• Abstraction
• Academic Database
• Analysis
• Annotation

Rewritten from a truncated AJG archive entry, August 2026.