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Stage 7: Writing & Publishing your Review: Step 1: How to Write your Review

Writing your Paper

How you choose to write your review will depend on three general factors:

Therefore, how you choose to structure your review and write in accordance with reporting standards will generally be specific to your review.

There are, however, reporting standards which serve as guides to help assist you with the writing process.

See Additional Resources below for a sample of reporting standards and handbooks.

Writing your Paper for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

When titling your paper, writing the abstract, and creating keywords, you should keep in mind how they will affect how others find your research once your paper is published.

Unless your research goes viral, visits to your article are going to come predominantly from search engines. Your goal should therefore be to ensure that your article appears at the top of the page of search results when someone searches for a term relevant to your research. This process is called search engine optimization (SEO).

The higher your article in search results = the more discoverable your research

The academic publishing company Wiley highlights 3 steps to SEO:

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