What Makes a Good Literature Review: A Comparative Analysis

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Literature review articles are highly beneficial to researchers in terms of data
collection, and also to find out whether a particular research paper is reliable and appropriate,
before reading the entire text. The purpose of this reflective essay is to identify what really
makes a good literature review, by selecting and comparing three literature reviews from the
journal of ACM Computing surveys.
In an article called “Searching the Web of Things: State of the Art, Challenges, and
Solutions”, the authors attempt at finding out the complexities associated with the various
forms of specializations with the search engines and servers (Tran et al. 2017). The article
takes references from over 200 academic sources to provide a comprehensive framework for
the web of things search engine. What is special about this article is that it has taken
references from over two hundred sources. This is highly beneficial for a researcher to go
through the review and identify the appropriate sources which he would need for his own
research paper.
In another literature review article titled “A Taxonomy and Survey of Cloud Resource
Orchestration Techniques”, the authors take a holistic approach towards constructing a
framework for cloud resource orchestration (Weerasiri et al. 2017). This is achieved by
collating over a hundred academic sources to gain concepts and ideas into the matter. Unlike
the previous article, this article specializes in conceptualizing and formulating information
which would be helpful for further research, based on the findings of the research. In other
words, the article opens up a space for further research on the topic, by providing researchers
with the coalition of all the academic resources required to conduct the same.
The article “Connected Car: Technologies, Issues, Future Trends” takes references
from a number of resources to come to explain the future aspects of connected cars in the
modern world. This research paper also opens up the gates for further research, but in a more