@article{Arthur_2013, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Literature Review Chart}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/literature-review-chart}, abstractNote={This resource includes a Word template for students to organize their research and thoughts in the process of developing a five-source mini-literature review. Students asked to write a literature review for the first time typically struggle to move beyond "book report" style writing and toward literature synthesis. The template builds on a chart developed by the library at California State University--San Marcos (http://library.csusm.edu/course_guides/education/literature_review_chart.htm) to help students identify key elements from the literature, but goes beyond it to help students locate the common ideas among their sources and use these common ideas to develop a conception of what is known and what is not known in the prior literature. The resource has been used in undergraduate and graduate research methods courses in sociology and psychology but would also be appropriate for courses in sociological writing, capstone courses, or any other course in which literature review, research proposal, or grant proposal assignments are used.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Arthur, Mikaila}, year={2013}, month={Jun.} }