The expert in anything was once a beginner or A thought on Levy2006

(Levy and Ellis 2006) is one of the most useful paper I've read. It is more easily to read if compared with Skill for business inquiry's readings of previous weeks. There are not many complex sentences and jargons in this paper. However, it's hard to give critical thinking for this paper due to the fact that it is not to argue about a specific case but like a synthesis of researches on literature. 

 

The paper contains many commonsense, such as on page 188 "only articles that are relevant to build the theoretical foundations for the validity of the theories, constructs and measures should be noted", which means in simple language: "only note what is relevant". In this case the author wrap the commonsense in complex language. But commonsense is not common. They are different from person to person. Especially, in research paper, you should demonstrate the validity of your argument, even if you think that it's commonsense. If you do not, you are making "appeal to common practice" fallacy.

All in all, this paper is quite helpful, especially for novice researcher. It recommends some techniques such as: backward and forward search, how to organize digital and hard-copy articles, how to mix articles of different databases to avoid bias. They are all very basic, but very useful. One may say that it is only useful for novice researchers. I may agree with that. But as a saying goes, the expert in anything was once a beginner. So if you want to become an expert, this paper can help you to achieve the first step.

The author might have made "appeal to authority" fallacy in page 186. In this page, the author recommended a ranked list of journals and conferences, but he did not explain why recommended that list. What are the criteria used to make that list? Are there any alternatives? Why he chose that list? Yeah, all he did was to cite researches which supports that list, so theoretically, the author has made "appeal to authority" fallacy.

Other than that, this paper is well organized, well construct and quite useful, especially for novice researchers.

REFERENCE

Levy, Y. and Ellis, T. J. (2006) A Systems Approach to Conduct an Effective Literature Review in Support of, translated by.