This document provides guidance on conducting an academic literature review. It discusses reviewing academic research from different perspectives such as knowledge, experience, reason, emotion, and language. It emphasizes establishing a process for reviewing literature that includes identifying keywords, searching databases, ranking sources by importance, and creating a literature map. The literature map should have a logical structure to represent the review and help identify gaps. The document advises summarizing sources for both quantitative and qualitative studies, noting key details like the problem, methods, findings, and flaws. Defining specialized terms as used in the literature is also recommended.