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Lack of institutional support and non-transparent writing practices leave graduate students in education to depend on the support of their academic supervisors. The aim of this paper is to familiarize graduate students with the genre of systematic literature review (SLR) , as it is conducted in the field of education, by providing them with a self-paced approach to writing a SLR. This approach contains goals, explanations, and recommended time frames, while at the same time suggesting deliverables to be produced that would facilitate the writing of this important part of their research project.  \nKeywords: academic writing, systematic literature review, graduate students  \n* [katarinapantic@weber.edu](katarinapantic@weber.edu)  \nIntroduction  \nAcademic writing, or writing done for academic purposes, is very complex (Lavelle & Bushrow, 2007) , as it needs to be well-supported, carefully elaborated, logically sequenced, and rigorously reasoned (Fang, 2021; Graff & Birkenstein, 2018) . As such, academic writing continues to confuse graduate students, while fears of failure often lead them to avoid it altogether for a variety of reasons (e.g. , Al-Shboul & Huwari, 2015; Bloom, 1981) . Some may lack experience with academic writing due to the nature of their field (Berdanier & Zerbe, 2018; Lax, 2002) . Others may have high writing anxiety (Holmes et al. , 2018) or low writing selfefficacy (Martinez et al. , 2011) . The latter may be especially true for many graduate students in the U.S. who are international students whose English is not their first language (SidmanTaveau & Karathanos-Aguilar, 2015) . One of the biggest reasons, however, might be the fact that novice writers are expected to decode writing practices that are universal to experienced academic writers but are rarely explicitly taught to students (Lambie et al. , 2008; Paré et al. , 2011) . While some universities provide some support, such support is sparse (Okoli, 2015), leaving graduate students to rely mostly on the feedback they receive from their academic advisors. This is problematic, as it limits the experience of graduate students, whose disciplinary learning, academic success, career advancement , and social status in academia depend on the possession of academic writing skills (Fang, 2021; Kamler & Thompson, 2006) .  \nTo develop their expertise and scholarly identity , graduate students must know how to read, produce, and publish academic writing (Pearson & Brew, 2002) . To have a chance to make scientific contributions, graduate students must build on and relate to existing knowledge, making a good-quality literature review the most relevant research method they need to master (Snyder, 2019) . While there are many different types of literature reviews (e.g. , meta-analysis, rapid review, scoping review; Grant & Booth, 2009) , we believe that systematic literature review (SLR) is especially approachable for novice researchers as it follows a rigorous methodological procedure (Fink, 2019) that lends itself well to description. Existing articles that lay out the procedure on how to conduct SLRs (e.g. , Kitchenham & Charters, 2007; Okoli, 2015; Shaffril et al. , 2021; Xiao & Watson, 2019), however, do not focus on the field of education, while their approach is not simplified enough for graduate students to follow independently.  \nThe aim of this paper, therefore, is to familiarize graduate students with the genre of SLR, as it is conducted in the field of education, by pr","cbCaikwR0NgNKKDj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikwR0NgNKKDj","pdf",153391,17,"English","# Introduction\n## Academic writing challenges for graduate students\n## Why literature reviews matter\n## Purpose and approach of the paper\n# Conducting a SLR in Education\n## Methodological procedure and documentation\n## Reasons SLR suits emerging education scholars\n## Gaps in existing SLR guidance","[{\"question\":\"Why is academic writing difficult for many graduate students in education?\",\"answer\":\"Academic writing is complex because it requires careful support, logical sequencing, and rigorous reasoning. 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