LITERATURE REVIEW

A literature review is a search and evaluation of the available studies and literature in your given
subject or chosen topic area. Also, a literature review can serve as a framework for a piece of research
or study, such as a thesis. It is used to analyze critically a segment of a published body of knowledge
through summarizing, classification and comparison of studies and theoretical articles. Literature
review has an organizational pattern that combines both summary and synthesis, though it can just
be a simple summary of sources.

Why do we make/write a Literature

review?
Research Literature
Methodology
Questions Review
✓ To develop theoretical frameworks
and methodology for research.
✓ To put your work in perspective. Data Conclusion
Analysis
✓ To see what has and has not been
investigated
✓ To identify data sources that other
researchers have used MUST AVOID PLAGIARISM!
✓ To develop alternative research
One must make sure to not plagiarize their
papers
works as it is a form of cheating. Students
✓ To learn how others have defined can be punished with suspension or even be
and measured key concepts expelled by the Office of the Dean in their
✓ To provide evidence that may be following colleges.
used to support your own findings
Must do’s when writing a literature review
CLARIFY AND IDENTIFY THE QUESTIONS

FIND MODELS AND SEARCH THE LITERATURE

NARROW YOUR TOPIC

SYNTHESIZE

WRITE THE REVIEW

References
Literature Review Tutorial: Why do a lit review? - Subject Guides https://subjectguides.library.american.edu/

CQUniversity Australia. (2020). What is a Literature Review? Retrieved from CQUniversity Library: https://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/literature-
review

Madison, University of Wisconsin –. (2020). LEARN HOW TO WRITE A REVIEW OF LITERATURE. Retrieved from UW-MADISON
WRITERS HANDBOOK:

https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/assignments/reviewofliterature/ Sciences, College of Arts and Social. (2020).