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Writing Center
Library resources to help students with any writing skills in their courses as well as reading skills.
This webpage from Excelsior Owl explains the purpose and content of a literature review. It also contains a short presentation on the basic steps to writing a literature review.
As noted in this resource from Purdue Online Writing Lab, the "lit review" is important in many subject disciplines. It is a document that collects the important sources on a topic and discusses those sources in relation to each other (synthesis).
