Tagged Entries: Working with Sources
A literature review is an evaluation of the available literature on a given subject. In literature reviews, you are synthesizing and analyzing research to tell a story about the work done about a topic and how it relates to present and future research. Use the resources below for guidance as your write your literature review.
Materials designed by Katharine Brown, Autumn Frederick, Layli Miron, and Muhammad Umer
This worksheet helps you begin identifying scholarly conversations by analyzing an example literature review
This worksheet helps you analyze an example literature review to identify the storytelling elements being used
This worksheet parallels the moves a writer makes when creating a literature review with Freytag’s pyramid. It guides writers in outlining their own literature reviews by answering a series of brainstorming questions
This handout helps students plan literature reviews by using selected examples of AI tools
Use these handouts and resources to understand the difference between quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing as well as when to use each technique.
Materials designed by Christopher Basgier, Katharine Brown, Amy Cicchino, and Megan Haskins
This worksheet will help you practice paraphrasing
This worksheet will help you write an annotation for a source for an annotated bibliography
This worksheet introduces you to the Chicago Style standard of writing and helps you practice paraphrasing and summarizing in Chicago
This worksheet gets writers considering how to paraphrase and summarize a source
This activity asks you to consider whether or not something is plagiarized
This handout provides an easy reference list of common transitional words and phrases
Many styles of academic writing require synthesis, or the process of representing relationships among multiple sources, including patterns of similarity and contrast. These materials introduce synthesis, provide select examples, and offer strategies for identifying opportunities for synthesis in your current research project.
Materials designed by Christopher Basgier and Heather Stuart
This handout offers tools and examples for identifying synthesis strategies that writers use in different academic disciplines.
This worksheet is a synthesis matrix, designed to help you create and see connections across sources
