What is the Literature
Topic 4: Literature Review

In order to write a synthesis as articulated in the above quote, you must first develop the skills for searching for resources, interpreting them, and then evaluating them. This means determining if the literature helps define, inform, or frame your research question(s) and determining if they are "worthy" pieces of literature

• Remember that empirical peer-reviewed journal articles are likely to be the most common source of literature you use in your dissertation.
• View the video on this page and then review the document called "Literature Review" and focus on the types of literature you might find. 

Literature Review (.pdf)

A literature review is a synthesis of the literature on a topic.  To create the synthesis one must first interpret and evaluate individual pieces of literature. Then the ideas and the information they contain must be integrated and restated in order to create a new original written work.
-- Pan, M. Ling (2004)