The Efficient Scholar: Drafting Your Literature Review (Course-Module Four)

Module Four teaches how to write a literature review draft that doesn't read like an annotated bibliography with opinions.

Most drafts read like a stack of book reports — accurate but argument-free. Synthesis means showing how sources relate. A proficient literature review draft explains a relationship within the discussion in one of four ways: agreement, contradiction, extension, or a gap.

Module Four teaches how to use the three-step method that turns a citation list into an actual argument.