Literature Review

Writing the Literature Review

If you have never written a literature review before, use the resources in this list to learn how to approach this special type of research project and get step-by-step help. You can also view some sample literature reviews from other colleges and universities below.

Literature Writing Links

• Story Writing
• Form and Genre
• Theme
• Plot and Story
• Literature Review

Guides to Writing a Literature Review

The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It.

Writing at University of Toronto.
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of-writing/literature-review

Literature Reviews.

Writing Center at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/literature-reviews/

How to Write a Literature Review.

University Library. University of California, Santa Cruz.
http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/literaturereview.html

Review of the Literature.

The Writing Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/ReviewofLiterature.html

The Literature Review.

Deakin University Library. (Australia)
http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/research/literature-review

Sample Literature Reviews

Auckland Uniservices Ltd. Instructed Second Language Acquisition.
http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/schooling/5163

Sample APA Papers: Literature Review.

Purdue University Online Writing Center. PDF File.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090212013008_560.pdf

Sample Literature Review on Critical Thinking.

Gwendolyn Reece, American University Library.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/101152192/Critical-Thinking-and-Transferability-A-Review-of-the-Literature-by-Gwendolyn-Reece?secret_password=18hgfli70kssz364mxeu

Sample Literature Reviews.

Prof. G. Steinberg, College of New Jersey.
http://gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu/tcnj/rhetoric2/litreviews.htm

Sample of a Literature Review from a Quantitative Research Paper.

Susan Janssen, University of Minnesota Duluth.
http://www.d.umn.edu/~sjanssen/samplelitreview.htm

The Changing Face of Diplomatic History: A Literature Review.

University of Wisconsin-Madison. The History Teacher. Brenda Gayle Plummer.
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/38.3/plummer.html

The Doomsday Argument: a Literature Review.

Nick Bostrom. Dept. of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method London School of Economics.
http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/lit/

Content available at:

ESC Online Writing Center. “Writing the Literature Review.” Essay, SUNY Empire State

College, Web <www.esc.edu/online-writing-center/resources/

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