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Students often panic when assigned a Literature Review for an African American Studies class. Deciding on a topic, figuring out where to find appropriate articles, figuring out what types of articles are appropriate, and taking a point of view require learning new skills and techniques.

Learn them easily by breaking them down into simple steps and performing them bit by bit.

barbie drinking coffee (Barbie and I both find that a delicious coffee, tea, or chocolate accompanies these activities very nicely.)


 
 

 
Chinua Achebe on CSPAN

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe talks about his novel at the offices of The Washington Post. The fifty-year-old novel, which looks at the impact of British colonialism on a village in Nigeria, has been translated into over 40 languages and over ten million copies have been sold worldwide.
(Sunday 9 AM and 10:45 PM ET)


 

 
Step by Step Process

  • Select a Topic - (Duke University)
  • Find Background Information
  • Find Primary Sources
    • Find Primary Sources - great information on finding primary (historical) sources in libraries (UC Berkeley)
  • Find Books on Your Topic
  • Locate other relevant information as necessary:
  • Find Journal Articles (especially with PsycINFO)
  • Search the Internet and the World Wide Web (Binghamton University Libraries)
  • Evaluating Sources (North Carolina State University Library)
  • Write Your Paper - (and Cite Your Sources Binghamton University Libraries)

    • The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It
    by University of Toronto
    Succinct suggestions for thinking about and reading for a literature review.
    Very important, at the end, the article states, "A literature review is a piece of discursive prose, not a list describing or summarizing one piece of literature after another." You must make a point!


     
     

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