When planning research on your topic, consider the type of research you wish to conduct.

Flow Chart of the Literature Review Process

When reviewing your search results, think about the TYPE of research being presented.

Illustrations on this web page scanned from the book, Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination by Chris Hart (London : Sage, 1998). Table 3.2 from page 47; Figure 2.1 from page 34; and Table 3.1 from page 46.