Sample Phrases for the Literature Review
Sample Phrases for the Literature Review
______has been the subject of …
A basic assumption, pertinent to the study of ______is …
A number of hypotheses concerning the nature of ______has been advanced by various authors.
A number of practices currently operative in ______are designed to …
A number of recent experiments have demonstrated …
A number of recent studies of ______are based on ______'s study of …
A number of studies have shown …
Every current theme in the literature is …
A review of the literature illustrates …
A significantly high proportion of the studies in the field are concerned with …
A substantial body of research reveals …
A succinct review of ….
According to …
According to most of the literature produced on the subject, there …
Accumulating research indicates …
Adherents to the theory of . . .
Among current trends in the study of …
An area which needs to be explored …
An indication of the importance attached to the study of ______is …
An examination of …
An interesting hypothesis …
Another aspect of …
Another point of view has been advanced by …
Another point of view has been discussed by …
As noted in …
As noted previously …
Assumptions can be extracted from the current research literature.
Attention should be directed toward …
Central to …
Characteristically, the studies examined …
Crucial to …
Earlier research findings show …
Evidence regarding the …
Few investigations have evaluated …
Findings of earlier studies generally agree with …
General trends are apparent in the studies cited in …
Highly critical to …
Impetus for …
In reviewing the research literature …
In terms of the theory under review …
In the review of the literature, ______will be discussed.
Interest has been generated in …
It has been noted that …
It is only recently that researchers have begun to examine systematically the effect of …
More attention is being devoted to …
Most of the literature suggests that there is some relationship between ______and ______.
Most researchers on the subject of …
Of relevance here is the research of ______
One of the central questions of the current studies is …
Other researchers have demonstrated …
Pertinent to …
Previous research findings show …
Previous research has investigated the impact of ______upon ______.
Previous research, utilizing various methodologies, indicated a significant relationship between ______and ______.
Research in ______has passed through various stages in its development.
Research investigating ______has revealed …
Recent investigations continue to interpret …
Recent studies reveal …
Research up this point has …
Researchers have given little theoretical attention to …
Researchers have raised questions about …
Several assumptions can be deduced from the current research literature.
Several researchers have noted …
Several researchers take the position that …
Several studies point out …
Some long standing assumptions of ______have been questioned.
Some researchers argue that …
Studies have investigated …
Studies of ______and its relationship to ______highlight ….
Subsequent inquiries have …
Tangential to …
The argument that ______is an effective technique is well documented.
The contention that ______is an effective ______is well documented.
The crux of the matter is …
The greatest research effort on this issue has been to …
The hypothesis of ______was initially tested by ______.
The ideas expressed by ______led to a broader conceptualization of …
The largest proportion of the studies support the premise …
The leading exponent of …
The literature is replete with references to …
The literature reveals a diversity of opinions on …
The literature review will focus on …
The most notable ______about …
The notion of ______is supported by the research of …
The question arises …
The review of the literature is instructive in …
The studies cited in …
The subject of ______has received minimal attention.
Theoretical advances have …
Theoretical speculations about …
There are several reasons for inquiring into …
There has been little investigation of …
There is a growing body of evidence that shows …
There is also documentation of …
These outcomes can be generalized to …
These studies indicate …
This interest has not been limited to …
This point of view is rapidly gaining support.
This thesis was initially explored by …
This topic is in need of further study and clarification.
Within the context of …
With few exceptions …
A recent study by ______
A study by ______advances the notion that …
A study by ______supports this hypothesis.
A study by ______puts forth …
A study concerned specifically with ______is ______'s investigation of ______'s study gave priority to …
Another writer who explored ______
______as described by ______
Based on the results of interviews with subjects in her study, ______proposed … ______in a more recent study.
In his discussion of ______, ______reported ______is described by ______as ______
Other studies conducted by ______substantiate …
The purpose of a study conducted by ______
This study considered …
______was more detailed and explicit in defining …
______'s work is based on the earlier research of ______
______'s work is pertinent to the school of thought.