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Literature Reviews

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  • What should a Literature Review include?
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  • Research - Getting Started

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Literature Reviews Examples

Social Sciences examples

  • Psychology study In this example, the literature review can be found on pages 1086-1089, stopping at the section labeled "Aims and Hypotheses".
  • Law and Justice study In this example, the literature review can be found on pages 431-449, stopping at the section labeled "Identifying and Evaluating the Impacts of the Prisoners' Rights Movement". This article uses a historical literature review approach.
  • Anthropology study The literature review in this article runs from page 218 at the heading "Between Critique and Enchantment" and ends on page 221 before the heading "The Imagination as a Dimension of Reality".

Hard Science examples

  • Physics article The literature review in this paper can be found in the Introduction section, ending at the section titled "Experimental procedure".
  • Health Science article The literature review in this article is located at the beginning, before the Methods section.

Arts and Humanities examples

  • Composition paper In this example, the literature review has its own dedicated section titled "Literature Review" on pages 2-3.
  • Political geography paper The literature review in this paper is located in the introduction section.

Standalone Literature Review examples

  • Project-based learning: A review of the literature
  • Mental health and gender dysphoria: A review of the literature
  • Academic engagement and commercialisation: A review of the literature on university–industry relations
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