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How to do a literature review: This Guide

What's in this Guide - Steps and Resources for Basic Traditional Literature Reviews

This guide explains and shows a range of resources and steps for developing, managing, and completing literature reviews. Different kinds of literature reviews are completed for a variety of projects including class papers, articles, grants, theses, and dissertations.

Although this guide is primarily designed to accompany literature review workshops offered by the University Libraries, we hope that it will be useful for anyone working on a literature review project.

Sections of this guide are shown at the left and these have the content briefly listed below.

The URL for this guide is:  http://libguides.library.kent.edu/litreview

If you are not on campus...to connect to full text of most articles and online books noted in this guide, you will need your FlashLine ID and password.

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