Research Guides: How to Write a Literature Review: Start

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Welcome!

This guide is organized around the 7 steps in the graphic to the left to help you understand the process of writing a literature review.

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 Literature Review (2009) by Machi and McEvoy.

Text description of "Literature Review Process" for web accessibility

Our thanks to IUPUI University Library for sharing their guide under a Creative Commons license. Content in this guide is borrowed from "Literature Review - A Self-Guided Tutorial."

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