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CORE 3000: Bystander Intervention

What is a Literature Review?

The purpose of the literature review is to:

Set the background on what has been researched on a topic.
Show why a topic is significant to a subject area.
Discover relationships between ideas.
Identify major themes & concepts.
Identify critical gaps & points of disagreement.
Help the researcher turn a network of articles into a coherent view of the literature.

Literature Review: An Overview for Graduate Students, by North Caroline State University Libraries (10 minutes)

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