Conducting a Literature Review (PGBS)

In this guide you will find many resources to help you through the process of conducting a literature review as a Graziadio Business School student. Use the tabs above to help you plan, guide your search strategy, and navigate the existing research as you prepare to write your literature review.

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While there are differences in literature reviews depending on the discipline, most literature reviews:

• summarize, analyze and organize sources tied to an overarching theme
• use a set of defined criteria for selecting the sources to review
• provide an explanation for differing conclusions between sources on similar questions

Citation Management Software - Zotero

This guide offers helpful tips and tricks to get you started using Zotero. Through this guide, you will learn how to use this Citation Management Software to save research, organize citations, and share research. 

Writing a Research Paper -Evaluating & Analyze

This tab offers recommendations on how to identify sources, and identify scholarly literature from other types of documents.