ARP Resources

MBA Community Economic Develpmt,  the social network for students of the MBA[CED], includes the ARP parameters, samples, and other resources. Click here to login if you have an account, or contact George Karaphillis, Director, MBA[CED] program . 

A literature review surveys books, scholarly articles, and any other sources relevant to a particular issue, area of research, or theory, and by so doing, provides a description, summary, and critical evaluation of these works in relation to the research problem being investigated. Literature reviews are designed to provide an overview of sources you have explored while researching a particular topic and to demonstrate to your readers how your research fits within a larger field of study. [Fink, Arlene. (2014) Conducting research literature reviews: From the internet to paper(4^thed).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2014.

Here are some useful guides and tutorials:

• Writing the Literature Review: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Graduate Students - 3 short videos from University of Maryland

• Literature Reviews - A Guide from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• The Literature Review - A Few Tips on Conducting it from University of Toronto Writing Center

Use Zotero, a freely available citation manager, to save references found while searching for research literature. It not only saves what you find but will create your citations and reference list for you.  CBU Library holds Zotero workshops. Here are links to Zotero as well as a link to an APA guide.