Writing a Literature Review in Social Sciences

Source: www.jisc.ac.uk  

• Use a citation management tool to organize the materials
  
  
• No citation management tools are perfect. It is still your responsibility to check your citations  with the required publishing style to ensure that the citations are formatted properly for your paper

For information on citation management tools including the comparison chart, see our Citation Guide.

• Identify the main points of a text that support your working thesis 
• Organize your thoughts
• Organize the evidence to support the working thesis
• create a table to map how different sources relate to one another  or
• create a literature reivew summary table 

               E.g., 

•  Literature Review Matrix Template (From Walden Univ.) 
• Literature Review Summary Table (From Texas Dept. of State Health Services)
• Write in your own words 

Some citation management tools have a note-taking feature. You may also want to use one of the apps for note-taking.