systematic review dissertation

Explore the wealth of resources available across the web. Here are some good places to start.
Link to the Campbell Collaboration, an organization that prepares, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews in education, crime and justice, social welfare and international development

Methods: In a review of infant massage, we identified 17 dissertations. We recorded whether each dissertation was included in the review and, if so, whether it contributed data to any analyses.
Objectives: To determine whether unpublished dissertations are an important source of trials for systematic reviews.

What are the benefits of a literature review?
A literature review is often split into chapters, you can choose if these chapters have titles that represent the information within them, or call them chapter 1, chapter 2, ect. A regular format for a literature review is:

Step 1: Review the materials that you used in your [See Stage 1: Initial literature survey] and the feedback you received from your committee.
Read the narrative for this stage on the University of Minnesota (UMN) website, then use the links listed below to update the links in the narrative and to locate UCF resources equivalent to those described for UMN.

You might find it useful to write an Annotated bibliography as a way of organising your thoughts on secondary sources in a structured and methodical way.
A literature review is built on the work of others, but you shouldn’t rely on the words of others when expressing their views. For this reason, Paraphrasing is a particularly important skill when writing a literature review.

References:

http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10932436
http://libguides.derby.ac.uk/dissertations/litreview
http://guides.ucf.edu/c.php?g=78838&p=518756
http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/dissertation-planner/writing-literature-review
http://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-literature-review/book236719