The graduate student’s dilemma: Caught between the inaccessibility of systematic reviews and the biases of narrative review
The literature review plays a key role in the journey of graduate students and impacts their ability to complete their degree within the expected timeframe. Unfortunately, graduate students generally lack the knowledge and resources required to conduct systematic reviews. At the same time, they are...
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| Médium: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Français |
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2025
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | The literature review plays a key role in the journey of graduate students and impacts their ability to complete their degree within the expected timeframe. Unfortunately, graduate students generally lack the knowledge and resources required to conduct systematic reviews. At the same time, they are told that narrative reviews are not rigorous and are more prone to bias. This leaves them with few options to produce credible literature reviews. This article describes how a graduate student (the first author) used snowballing—a systematic literature search technique—to enhance the rigor of a narrative review. It involves following the references and citations of relevant papers to identify additional studies for the literature review. Reflections on her graduate-level experience and the impact of snowballing to date are also presented. We conclude with the article’s contribution to the graduate student journey and to enhancing the student experience of the literature review. |
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