How to Write a Literature Review
Literature Review (Video)
Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate Students by North Carolina State University Libraries
Writing the Literature Review: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Graduate Students [Produced by University of Maryland University College]
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How to do a Successful Literature Review breaks the process down into ten easy steps and provides resources, tips, and tricks along the way.
Please note that, while the interfaces of the Himmelfarb Library home page and PubMed have changed, the content remains the same. Also note that the instructor in this video conducts screening and extraction in Excel. However, you may wish to use Covidence, an online tool that helps facilitate and streamline these processes.
- Covidence 101 WebinarCovidence offers a monthly webinar to introduce new users to the various features in Covidence. A recording of the prior month's webinar is also available.
- Learn to Use RefWorks in 20 MinutesStart here! Learn the basics of importing references from databases, organizing your references, and creating bibliographies.
Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy, 6th edition by
"The Matrix Method is one of many ways to approach a literature review. It was created by Judith Garrard when she was preparing NIH grants and is intended to teach students how to read a paper, organize the review using the Matrix Method, analyze it, and create a narrative synthesis. This method is particularly useful in the health sciences. Review is usually the initial step for a proposal for independent scientific study, often a Masters project or doctoral dissertation, and traditionally done under the guidance of faculty or a mentor. Though Judys background is not in nursing, the adoptions are primarily in graduate nursing programs. The text is not intended as a resource for developing academic writing skills. It provides a system for organizing and conducting a literature review and develops research literacy skills"--
ISBN: 9781284211290Publication Date: 2022
