This document provides guidance on how to write a literature review by outlining the key components including summarizing, evaluating, and reflecting on multiple sources on a topic. It emphasizes summarizing the main points of articles, evaluating the authority and arguments of the authors, and commenting on how the sources relate to each other and the overall topic. The document also gives tips for searching for relevant sources and preparing an outline to structure the literature review.

2. Today
Lit Reviews

3. WHAT IS A LIT
REVIEW?

6. FIND
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8. CREATE YOUR OWN
STRATEGY
Your assigned topic for your article review.
OR
Topic for your course assessment
assignments.

9. Where do you search?

10. Your Turn

11. PREPARING THE
REVIEW

12. Write your Review
1. Identify the important parts
of a review.
2. Use a study/article summary
to break down each article.
3. Write the review.

13. What should be
included in a good
review?

14. Parts of a Review
1. Summary
2. Evaluation
3. Commentary or Reflection

15. EVALUATE

16. Evaluation
– Authority of author
– Strength of argument
– Strength of author’s evidence/sources
– Strength of author’s methodology
– Strength of author’s conclusions

17. Evaluation
Important notes:
– Significance of the article
– How may it influence your behavior as a
current or future supervisor?

18. Evaluation: CRAAP Test
Currency
Relevance
Authority
Accuracy
Purpose
csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf

19. EVALUATE
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20. SUMMARIZE

21. Summary
Highlight
the main
points or
findings.

22. Summary: Paraphrase
Use your own words, do not
copy the abstract.
Paraphrasing advice: owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/02/

23. ARTICLE/STUDY
SUMMARY
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24. COMMENTARY/RE
FLECTION

25. Commentary/Reflection
• Was the info helpful?
• How does it connect to
your current professional
setting?
• How does it connect to
class material?
• Is it realistic in a school
setting?
• What additional resources
are needed to accomplish
the ideas from the article?

26. Commentary/Reflection
• What is your opinion
of the article?
• Comment on the
intended audience
• How does this add to
or inform other works
you have cited?
• How does this add to
or inform your topic?

27. COMMENTARY/RE
FLECTION
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28. TAKE IT ONE
STEP AT A TIME

29. COURSE
ASSESSMENTS

30. SYNTHESIS
MATRIX
guides.library.jhu.edu/lit-review

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33. Liz Johns
emjohns@jhu.edu
Office hours and more
resources:
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