2. Requirements & Dates
Length: 4-5 pages
Format: APA format
Library Day: Thursday, May 12
First Draft : Sunday, May 22
Final Draft: Wednesday, May 25
The Literature Review consists of:
an introduction
summary of scholarly sources
a discussion and evaluation of the sources
(including disputes and disagreements)
conclusion in which you put forth your own
potential original research questions that will
contribute something new to the conversation.
Five scholarly, peer-reviewed sources (2 must be
2013 or newer)
4. What is it NOT?
1
• NOT a standard essay/research
paper(it may be part of a larger paper)
2
• NOT state or prove your main
point(that will be your ORA)
3
• NOT a Annotated Bibliography
5. What it IS:
3
Relationships between those snapshots
2
Reviewed = snapshot (major concepts, points, whatever)
1
Major works that have been published about your narrowed topic
6. The Purpose:
1
• To improve your own understanding
2
• Demonstrate your knowledge
3
• Bring your reader up to date (fill them in!)
8. Techniques
• Organize by date, decade, timeline (legal structures of
juries in America)Chronological
• From beginning to present, major advancements in the
field (DNA technology)Advancements
• Organize by area (juveniles tried as adults, race in
sentencing)Geographical
• What are the major questions in relationship to this topic
that have been addressed by researchers through the
years? (find this through research)
Questions
9. Structure (See your Outline)
Introduction
• Overall Topic
• Big Picture
• Narrow research
question
Theme A
• Overview
• Sub-themes
Theme B
• Overview
• Subthemes
Conclusion
(Discussion &
Evaluation)
• Contributions
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Missing?
• Next Steps
• Relation to Serial
11. Where do you start?
• Research. Gather scholarly articles and book chapters. Collect
more than you need.Collect
• Don’t read them. Scan the titles, abstract, headings, intro and
conclusion to assess possible usefulness. See what’s happening.
Get rid of what you don’t need. Then read what you need.
Analyze
• Figure out what kind of pattern happens with your sources.
Make an outline by organizational pattern.Arrange
• Summarize the literature. Pull together the connections
between the literature and make them clear to your reader. This
is synthesis. Discuss strengths and weaknesses of the literature.
Summarize&
Synthesize
12. Scholarly Articles
1. Title
2. Abstract
3. Introduction
› Introducing the problem
› Literature Review
› Purpose, rationale, and hypothesis
4. Methods
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. References
13. The 7-minute Challenge
Scan your journal article.
› Read the title
› Read the abstract
› Read the introduction, the headings, the first and last
sentence of every paragraph and the conclusion
Summarize
What is the research question?
Key ideas and concepts?
What did you find that wasn’t in the abstract?
What is the conclusion?
Useful/not useful?
14. Practice!
Based on the ridiculous abstracts,
identify potential patterns of
organization.
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