"Learning Program"
for the Literature Review

Students on the English Centre's 1st-year course for Social Science students have been given a sequenced series of links to Academic Grammar to help them through the process of doing and then writing up a Literature Review. 

What is it ? This page offers examples of different kinds of Literature review, complete with tasks and commentaries:

http://ec.hku.hk/acadgrammar/litrev/main.htm

How to write it? Pages that help with the actual writing of a Lit Review are:

http://ec.hku.hk/acadgrammar/litrev/section2/two1.htm

- and the 4 pages that follow, complete with links to the most appropriate of the example reviews.

This site offers extensive advice on how and why you refer to the literature, and how to write a bibliography in the APA style:

http://ec.hku.hk/acadgrammar/general/argue/citation/frame2.htm

Those seem like the most appropriate links to help you work through a Literature Review. Of course, we assume you will eventually find your own way around Academic Grammar, but feel it's useful to offer students what we think are the most appropriate starting points.

If you're doing a Literature Review as preparation for doing your own Research Project, then go to Research Reports.