writing literature reviews

This tutorial focuses on writing a chapter-length literature review. However, the five key points presented here will be useful for other forms of literature review:

• a single chapter
• segmented into a series of chapters on several topics
• embedded in successive thematic chapters
• a section of the introduction (in most theses there will be a short review here to justify the research, even when there is a longer review elsewhere).

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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)

References:

http://libguides.wpi.edu/literaturereview
http://libguides.ucmerced.edu/lit_reviews
http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/assignments/literaturereview/matrix