Question

The literature review section of a conference presentation should last about ____ minutes.

a. three

b. five

c. seven

d. nine

Answer 1

The literature review section of a conference presentation should last about 3 minutes.

Conferences do not usually accept literature review manuscripts or review articles for publishing in their conference proceedings. However, some conferences do allow publication of review articles as a poster.

So it's best to keep this as small as possible.

In any case, the abstract for a narrative/literature review for a journal article should start with two lines of background information on the topic being discussed in the review. This should be followed by one sentence of the aim of the review. Then, in the next 2-3 sentences, you should describe the methods that you have used – you need to specify which databases you have searched, how many articles you have reviewed, the time-frame of the articles. You should next state the main observations from the review that you have performed in 1-2 sentences. As concluding remarks – in 1 sentence, you should state what is the inference and what is your opinion about the findings from the literature review. You can make some general recommendations and should close the abstract by stating the larger implications of the findings.