Navigate to the 'Finding Books' and 'Finding Articles' tabs to utilize the Library's resources for your literature review. Repeat your searches in multiple databases and using a variety of keywords to obtain a maximum number of results.
1.) Identify and make a list of keywords to guide your literature search.
2.) Using your keywords, locate primary and secondary sources that pertain to your research topic.
3.) Evaluate your sources for quality.
4.) Abstract your sources.
5.) Analyze and organize our sources using a literature matrix.
6.) Write the literature review.
Source: From Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application (10th ed.) by L.R. Gay, G.E. Mills, and P. Airasian, c. 2012. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.