The purpose of this guide is to provide background and guidelines related to literature reviews in social work.
The following book will be a key resource to you as you write your literature review:
A literature review is a comprehensive summary of the ideas, issues, approaches, and research findings published on a particular subject area or topic. A literature review is not a simple description of all you have read on a topic. Instead, we are analyzing the resources as we present their findings. We are addressing the contributions and gaps illustrated by the resource. As we write a literature review, we are: