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Literature Reviews

A guide to help you get started with conducting a literature review

Formats

As previously discussed, you have multiple ways of writing a literature review. 

  • Standalone Literature Reviews tend to be lengthy works, the goal of which is to share common themes that the author has found in the literature. This is often a class assignment or a publication. 
  • As part of a larger body of work: literature reviews can be a small section of a larger body of work, such as a theses, dissertation or even an article. It provides a short overview of common themes in the literature. 

How you write it will depend on your class - however, take into account everything we talked about in this tutorial and workshop to help you find and organize your sources.