Literature Review: A Self-Guided Tutorial

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This tutorial was adapted for Williams Libraries from Literature Review - A Self-Guided Tutorial, created by Kathleen Hanna, with contributions from Sara Lowe and Ted Polley (all with IUPUI University Library) and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Literature Review Process

Literature review process cycle from Literature Review (2009) by Machi and McEvoy.This guide will help you to:

  • Define a literature review.
  • Recognize that different fields of study have their own way to perform and write literature reviews.
  • Prepare to search the literature.
  • Read critically -- analyze and synthesize.
  • Prepare to write a literature review.

 

Graphic from Machi & McEvoy (2009) Literature Review. Detailed text description of graphic.

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