Literature Reviews

This guide will walk you through various ways to access, analyze, and write literature reviews. The contents include the following:
 

• Locating Literature Reviews
  Tips for locating resources through library databases and online.


• Analyzing Text
  Active reading and analysis strategies.


• Writing Literature Reviews
  Resources to help write a literature review.


• Help
  Provides links to additional resources that were not otherwise mentioned.

A literature review is a collection and examination of all of the material available about a given subject. 

Literature reviews require extensive research so that you can obtain thorough knowledge of the subject matter that you are researching.

We conduct literature reviews to help ensure that our ideas make a unique contribution over and above what has already been written on a topic.