amann-tables-figures

1# Tables & Figures for a Review (amann-tables-figures)
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3## When to trigger
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5- The synthesis is done and the reader needs to *see* the field at a glance
6- The organizing framework would land far better as a diagram than as prose
7- A fragmented literature would be clearer as a synthesis table than as paragraphs
8- You are tempted to paste a regression table — but this is a review, not a primary paper
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10## The exhibit types an Annals review actually uses
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12Annals exhibits **summarize and reorganize across the literature**; they never present the author's own estimation. The workhorses:
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14| Exhibit | Purpose | Design notes |
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16| **Framework figure** | render the organizing spine — typology grid, process model, multi-level architecture | this is usually the review's *signature* exhibit; it should be restate-able from memory and carry the "new way of seeing the field" |
17| **Who-studied-what synthesis table** | one row per study (or per stream): construct, theory base, method/context, finding, your appraisal | rows ordered by the framework's cells, not chronology; columns let the reader compare *comparable* work |
18| **Search / coverage exhibit** | a PRISMA-style flow, a search-terms table, or a publications-over-time chart | documents the systematic process from `amann-literature-synthesis` and pre-empts "why did you omit X?" |
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