This document summarizes a seminar on trends in urban elementary education. It outlines the learning outcomes of articulating a research question, searching subject databases using key concepts and Boolean operators, determining relevance, integrating new information, citing sources, and using EndNote. It also provides guidance on writing a literature review, including choosing a structure, extracting main points, summarizing sources, and showing relationships between sources. Finally, it demonstrates conducting a literature search using concepts, Boolean operators, truncation, evaluating results, and assessing if the search should be modified.