Literature Reviews: Useful Sites
The majority of these sites focus on literature reviews in the social sciences unless otherwise noted. For systematic literature reviews, we recommend you to contact directly your subject librarian for help.
- Six Steps to Writing a Literature ReviewBlog post written by Tanya Golash-Boza, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Merced.
- [REMOVE] How to Write a Historiography (Literature Review for History)This is an excellent site to learn how to write this particular literature review in History.
Writing Tutorials & Other Resources
A selection of sites that offer tutorials and handouts to learn how to write literature reviews and how to use specific writing skills such as paraphrasing and synthesis.
- Synthesize the Literature Review: A Research JourneyPresentation from Harvard's Graduate School of Education on synthesizing literature.
Where to Find Stand-Alone Lit. Reviews
Annual Review's journals are journals that specialize to publish stand-alone literature reviews for a particular subject or field. Check out the links below to see example of how literature reviews are written in different fields.
- Sample Literature ReviewFrom Annual Review of Sociology
- [REMOVE] List of eJournals for Annual Reviews in a variety of subject fieldsList of annual review journals. As you scan the list, notice the ones that listed your specific subject area.
Resources for Writing
UConn Writing Center
- Writing Center: Graduate Student SupportLearn what type of services are offered to support graduate students' writing needs
