Literature Review: Purpose
The function of the literature review:
Denscombe, M. (2007). The good research guide: For small-scale social research projects. Maidenhead. Open University Press.
Gall, M. D., Borg, W. R., & Gall, J. P. (1996). Education research: An introduction (6th ed.). White Plains, NY: Longman.
Hart, C. (1998). Doing a literature review: Releasing the social science research imagination. London: Sage.
Randolph, J. (2009). A Guide to Writing the Dissertation Literature Review. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 14(3). Retrieved from http://pareonline.net/pdf/v14n13.pdf
Literature Review: Resources
The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Writing Center for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill