LibGuides: Literature Review: Home

Definition

""A review of the literature is a classification and evaluation of what accredited scholars and researchers have written on a topic, organized according to a guiding concept such as your research objective, thesis or the problem/issue you wish to address." (Source :zimmer.csufresno.edu/~donnah/)

Literature reviews can vary by discipline and by assignment.. Please check with your professor for complete criteria for your literature review assignment .

Finding Examples

Examples

Undergraduate Research Journal - Bethune-Cookman - issues behind Circulation Desk (2 hour-reserve checkout)

Writing a Literature Review (Purdue University Online Writing Lab -OWL)

Your own collection of research articles. Many of you have a number of research articles that you have gathered while doing research for other assignments. Look through these for examples- most scholarly research articles will have a review of the literature after the introduction.

More examples can be found in databases:

Dissertations & Theses
This databases contained published dissertations and masters theses. All of them should have a literature review -although some of the lit reviews may be longer than you are required to write.
EBSCO Research Databases
Select one or more of the EBSCO journals databases and limit search to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" and "full text". Many scholarly journal articles will include a literature review section.

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