YM 4980 Leadership and Management for Youth Ministry (Seversen): Literature Review

The purpose of your 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.

[Borrowed from Marielle McNeal]

This following video covers what a literature review is, how to review the literature, and steps in writing a literature review.
(10 min. video)

 Literature Review: An Overview for Graduate Students, by North Caroline State University Libraries.