What Type of Paper Are You Writing? A Taxonomy of Review and Theory Scholarship Distinguished by Their Summary and Advocacy Arguments

• In Event: RTD- Types of Qualitative Synthesis and Secondary Research

Short Description

Secondary research includes a variety of methodologies including meta-analyses, systematic reviews, bibliometric/citation analysis, integrated analysis, literature syntheses, theoretical frameworks and conceptual arguments. These various kinds of secondary research papers place emphasis, at different levels, on two arguments about the literature: a summary argument and an advocacy argument. In this presentation, we will discuss these two key arguments and the differences/similarities between the various types of review and theory articles.

Authors

• Contributor: Rick West, Brigham Young University

• Contributor: Florence Martin, North Carolina State University