Writing Literature Reviews: Literature Reviews

For titles in the UC system, use the UC-eLinks button to initiate a Reqest for the title.

We have highlighted some sections which may be of particular interest.

• Research is about telling a story -- a professor's perspective (2:12 - 3:08)
• Different types of literature review -- e.g. in a thesis or dissertation (3:48 - 4:13)
• So what's involved in reviewing the literature? (7:00 - 8:46)

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Locating an in-depth review related to your topic of interest, can be a good first step to finding relevant information.  Look for literature reviews limiters in various databases. Note that in some search tools reviews refer to book reviews and not literature reviews. e.g. in JSTOR

Synthesis grids are organizational tools used to record the main concepts of your sources and can help you make connections about how your sources relate to one another.