SOWK 459 Week 09 - Literature Reviews: Getting Down to Writing

Use our outline to create a well written literature review

Two Parts of a Lit Review  Body Summary

Parenthetical citations Narrative citations Quantity of citations

Importance

Importance

Elaborate upon the ideas set forth in the literature. Add summarizing or concluding sentences at the end of your paragraphs.

What is useful about transitions

Add a transition word to the topic sentence of each paragraph to indicate how the information

Pro Tip: For most papers you will likely not use more than these two

You should be able to read the topic sentence of each paragraph, in order, and get an overvi

Example of summary