Strategies for Literature Reviews

Literature reviews are a great way to gain useful background in your discipline, learn more about techniques you're unfamiliar with, and re-invigorate the direction of your research. They are also an important first step in writing many types of documents, but constructing a literature review requires you to read dozens of scholarly sources in order to discover how they relate to one other, where gaps need to be filled, and where significant contributions can be made! In this workshop, you will first learn what a literature review is and why it's necessary. You will then develop strategies to locate, read, and manage a wide variety of scholarly sources, so you can strategically take notes, organize your thoughts, and effectively structure a meaningful literature review.