Literature Review

While you should always refer to your instructor's specific assignment guidelines when doing a literature review, you are safe to assume the following are true. A literature review ...

• Summarizes of the major literature on a specific topic showing relationships between theories, studies
• Produces unique observations and flows like any other original academic paper
• Contains central ideas and presents themes with supportive evidence
• It is NOT just a list of articles with summaries, that is an annotated bibliography

Below are some helpful websites from other academic institutions on how to write a literature review.