Women and Social Movements contains primary sources including speeches, essays, and trial transcripts. Just one of the great digital resources available through YOUR library website!
A literature review is a systematic review of the published literature on a specific topic or research question. The literature review is designed to analyze and synthesize (not just summarize) scholarly writings related directly to your research question. A successful review will survey the landscape of your topic, familiarizing you with key names and appropriate vocabulary and providing the groundwork for your own research.
What you choose to survey can vary depending on your project or field, but can include:
A thorough review might also survey documents and materials that can be harder to locate:
A literature review may constitute an essential chapter of a thesis or dissertation or it may be a self-contained review of writings on a particular subject. In either case, its purpose is to:
The literature review itself, however, does not present new primary scholarship.