Social Science Research Methods

This guide from Boston College is easy to navigate. You can jump straight to "Organizing the Review," for example.

A concise and fabulous guide to writing a literature review; gives clear examples of how to use a synthesis matrix (a literature review grid like we used in class) to pull your sources together. From Florida International University.

Bubbl.us is a concept-mapping tool; you may prefer this visual way of organizing and connecting themes in the literature (you can concept-map on paper or in other mind-mapping tools, as well).

This brief page offers suggestions for how to get started with concept mapping for your literature review.