As a music major, you’ve practiced for months for your recital. And then you find out, in addition to completing all the logistical details of putting together a concert, you have to write something about the music you’ll be performing. This blog posts walks you through genre conventions for program notes.

As an English major, I saw myself as a “good writer.” Then, I took a science class. As my experience demonstrates, students who are self-proclaimed “bad writers” are often still learning what is important to a discipline and how that discipline expresses those values in writing.

We have talked about why literature reviews are important to the academic endeavor, looked at what components a literature review has, and discussed how to determine its intellectual quality. Now that we understand literature reviews as a genre, we can get practical: how do we write a literature review?