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Welcome! The purpose of this guide is to help you understand what are "literature reviews" and the process of writing them in the social sciences and humanities. This guide will give you tips and/or point you to other sites with in-depth explanations on how to write literature reviews.This guide was adapted by Marisol Ramos from the Literature Review: The What, Why and How-to-Guide from University of Connecticut Libraries License CC BY-NC Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License.