The document provides guidance on how to write a review paper. It explains that a review paper synthesizes and analyzes the findings of several primary research sources to develop a coherent argument or description about a topic. The review paper should include an introduction that defines the topic, its relevance, and the thesis. The body should analyze, synthesize and interpret sources rather than just summarizing them. The conclusion should connect the main points back to the thesis and discuss the paper's significance. All sources must be accurately cited in the references section.
A literature review is a critical summary of all the published works on a particular topic. Most research papers include a section on literature review as part of the introduction. However, a literature review can also be published as a standalone article. These slides will help you grasp the basics of writing a literature review.
A literature review is a critical summary of all the published works on a particular topic. Most research papers include a section on literature review as part of the introduction. However, a literature review can also be published as a standalone article. These slides will help you grasp the basics of writing a literature review.
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REQUIREMENTS RESEARCH PROJECTNow its time to begin (two) major .docxsodhi3
REQUIREMENTS RESEARCH PROJECT
Now it's time to begin (two) major writing assignments: 1) the Focused Annotated Bibliography and 2) the Research Paper assignments. The Focused Annotated Bibliography is the research for the final research paper; therefore, you need to provide a "focus," a purpose statement that will become your thesis for the paper. Make sure you use correct MLA style for both papers. Directions for both assignments are in the course content; I suggest that you read all directions, example, etc. before beginning the bibliography assignment. Also read "How to Write about Literature" and "How to do Research" in the course content.
Requirements Specific directions, guides and examples are in Unit One: “Course Resources & Writing Assignments” in the Content. Read Unit One before beginning this assignment. Due Date: check the course calendar in the Syllabus and Start Items in the course content
Clear focus or thesis that is supported with examples, quotes and paraphrases from both primary and secondary sources.
6-8 pages in length, not counting the Works Cited page
MLA documentation style
Typed and double-spaced, 12 point font such as Times New Roman
Written in Standard English, free of grammatical and spelling errors
Use at least five scholarly sources; the best databases are: JSTOR, MLA, and Literary Reference Center. If an article isn’t available in our library, use interlibrary loan. You can order interlibrary loan articles online on the library’s website. Articles will be delivered to your email address.
Please note that you may or may not use all the sources cited in your Annotated Bibliography, which is part of your preliminary research. Whether you use a source depends on your thesis or purpose.
A word of caution: do not use non-scholarly sources or any online sources, especially Wikipedia or Sparknotes. If you rely on these sources, you will fail the assignment.
If you plagiarize, you will receive a zero for the assignment and may fail the class.
I will only accept Word files; do not use PDF.
Do not use online bibliography help, services that supposedly put your citations in correct MLA style – these sources are not accurate or reliable. You are responsible for understanding and implementing correct MLA style in your citations and in your papers.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR RESEARCH PAPER (PART TWO)
READ & EXTRACTED From UNIT 1
The Research Paper Assignment What is a Research Paper? In this class, the research paper is defined as a literary analysis, (see my handout on how to write a literary analysis in this module), a paper that explains and interprets a specific idea about one of the texts assigned in the course. Remember that you are using the primary source, the text, to support a specific reading – to do this process, you must do a close reading of your text. This involves finding evidence from the primary text to support your argument, your claim or thesis. You are also required to use scholarly eviden ...
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Proposal Essay
This assignment has three interrelated goals:
1. To help you develop the necessary skills to create a class A proposal, considering context, research questions, sources, timeline, and larger implications.
1. To give you practice working with the Research Proposal as an academic genre.
1. To provide an opportunity for working on stylistics and effective academic discourse.
FORMAT:
Your essay should be at least FIVE FULL PAGES and in MLA FORMAT. Please include page numbers, a heading, in-text citations and a properly labeled and formatted works cited. You may use images in your draft if you wish – just please use them rhetorically,
not decoratively.
In addition, be sure to
cite any credible sources (textual or image-based) that you include in your draft and to include a bibliography/works cited at the end that includes a
minimum of five sources. These sources must come from the Dallas College database or Dallas College library. If not, there should be a reason why.
PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS AND STRUCTURE
Your proposal should have a well thought out title and contain effective visual rhetoric as appropriate. It should be a traditional, linear Word document in MLA format. Make sure you are hitting the following parts within your essay (do not include subheadings. They are not needed):
Introduction.
This introduction should be designed to interest your reader in your topic and proposal and provide some historical/cultural context for your project. At the end of your introduction, include a tentative thesis to indicate to your reader that you are entering your project looking at your topic through a critical, analytic lens -- this thesis can state your intentions, but it SHOULD NOT BE IN FIRST PERSON.
A good formula for an introduction is context + problem/complication + proposed argument or research question. Each stage in this formula should be a few sentences long.
Body
In your body paragraphs, make sure that you are addressing the problem and its solution. MORE SOLUTION THAN PROBLEM should be in this essay. What are you proposing? What are you offering to the world?
Conclusion.
In your conclusion, address the "So What?" of this research. That is, why does what you are investigating matter as more than an academic exercise? Why should your audience want to read it? Why does it matter?
Works cited
When you cite sources, you'll also need to have a works cited at the end of the proposal, with the citations in MLA format. Any parenthetical citations in the text itself should also follow MLA guidelines. You can find more help on in-text citations and works cited format through the Dallas College website or Purdue OWL.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
At a minimum, there needs to be some content for each of the sections listed above. Students who submit drafts that represent very little effort and are pronouncedly incomplete will receive a ½ grade (i.e., A- to .
Select a topic to research. For your research, you must use Google.docxbagotjesusa
Select a topic to research. For your research, you must use Google Scholar or another reputable site. Use Lecture 2 for a description of what is considered a scholarly article. Use APA formatting style for references. Create a title page and a reference list with 10 references from the last 5 years. Include the permalink for each reference. Include the following types of references:
1. Book
2. Journal articles
3. Website
4. Dissertation/thesis from a database
5. Streaming video
6. Book chapter
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
LECTURE 2
Introduction
Learning to communicate appropriately and effectively in a variety of settings and in a variety of formats is an important skill in both academic and professional environments. In an online learning environment, learning to communicate effectively through writing is particularly important because it is, by far, how the majority of communication occurs. Review the learning objectives for this module within the course syllabus and use the following lecture, which is about various forms of written communication used in the online graduate setting, to accomplish them.
Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing the ideas of others is a requirement in academic writing and graduate study. Paraphrasing is using your own words to restate ideas or information from a source material. Paraphrasing will help you grasp the full meaning of the source material and allow you to appropriately reference the source material to support your own ideas and academic writing. Paraphrased material is usually shorter and more concise than the original information. The following are some common guidelines taken from the Purdue Online Writing Lab (2012), which may assist you with learning to paraphrase information gathered from reading materials for use in completing your coursework.
Reread the original passage until you understand its full meaning.
Set the original passage aside and, on a note card, write what you think the passage means in your own words (paraphrase).
Jot down a few words below your paraphrase to remind you later of how you plan to use the information. At the top of the note card, write a key word or phrase to indicate the subject of your paraphrase.
Compare your paraphrase with the original to make sure that your version accurately expresses all the essential information.
Use quotation marks to identify any unique term or phrase you copied exactly from the original source.
Record the source (including the page) on your note card so that you can cite it easily if you decide to incorporate the material into a paper or discussion question response.
The following is an example of paraphrasing (Purdue OWL, 2012), which i.
The Three-Part Topic Proposal for ResearchSave this file to your.docxssusera34210
The Three-Part Topic Proposal for Research
Save this file to your computer; type in your responses for each of the three areas below, and then upload your work by the deadline using the dropbox in Module 11.
Step 1:Explanation
Write a one-paragraph explanation. (This is not an introductory paragraph for the paper.) This should be an explanation of your focused topic and what you hope to prove to your reader through your analysis.
Step 2:Working Thesis
Really think about what you wrote in the explanation and pull it together by creating a working thesis. You will likely continue to revise and edit this thesis. Remember: A THESIS should include the focused topic plus your assertion about the significance of that topic. It should be argumentative in nature, since it is an opinion that you will prove through a close analysis of the details of the text.
Step 3: Tentative Outline
Now create a tentative outline for your working thesis. In other words, how will you break up your body paragraphs to prove or support the thesis?
Assignment:
APPROACH #2:
Another approach would be to expand on an idea addressed briefly in one of your discussion posts. Remember, you'll need to create a focused thesis statement. The prompts below can be used to create an assertion that you could then prove in your body paragraphs through a close analysis of the primary source (the work we studied) and through support from your secondary sources (literary criticism).
Edgar Allan Poe - "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Analyze the use of parallels or mirror images in this story. How does this kind of imagery support a thematic idea running throughout the story?
· SOURCES: You must use a minimum of THREE secondary sources. You will cite the work you are analyzing, of course, but it is a primary source. Therefore, you will have a minimum of FOUR sources listed on your Works Cited page. At least ONE of your secondary sources must be an article from a scholarly journal accessed via an LSCS library database. You must not use Cliffs Notes or Bloom's Notes or the like, basic dictionaries or encyclopedias, or any plot summaries. You should select reputable sources of literary criticism that help you prove your thesis. If, in addition to these minimum source requirements, you would like to briefly cite a source such as The Bible or a specialized dictionary - that is fine. If in doubt about the quality of a source, ask me or a reference librarian. An essay that does not meet the minimum source requirements will earn an automatic F.
· LENGTH: The essay must be 3-4 textual pages (not including the Works Cited page). The essay must follow MLA manuscript form guidelines stated in the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook. The text of the essay must be 3 full textual pages, meaning it will reach the bottom, one-inch margin on the third page of a correctly formatted Word document. An essay that does not meet the minimum length requirements will earn an automatic F. Plea ...
1. WHAT IS A REVIEW PAPER?
The purpose of a review paper is to succinctly review recent progress in a
particular topic. Overall, the paper summarizes the current state of knowledge of
the topic. It creates an understanding of the topic for the reader by discussing the
findings presented in recent research papers.
A review paper is not a "term paper" or book report. It is not merely a report
on some references you found. Instead, a review paper synthesizes the results
from several primary literature papers to produce a coherent argument about a
topic or focused description of a field.
The emphasis of a review paper is interpreting the primary literature on the
subject. You need to read several original research articles on the same topic
and make your own conclusions about the meanings of those papers.
HOW TO WRITE THE PAPER
Overview of the Paper:
Your paper should consist of four general sections:
• Introduction and Background
• The body of the paper
• Conclusion
• References
Review articles contain neither a materials and methods section nor an abstract.
Organizing the Paper:
Use topic headings. Do not use a topic heading that reads, "Body of the paper."
Instead the topic headings should refer to the actual concepts or ideas covered in
that section.
Example
What Goes into Each Section:
Section of the paper What it should contain
Introduction & Background Introduction
2. The introduction of your review should accomplish
three things:
Introduce your topic
It may sound redundant to "introduce" your topic in the
introduction, but often times writer's fail to do so. Let
the reader in on background information specific to
the topic, define terms that may be unfamiliar to them,
explain the scope of the discussion, and your purpose
for writing the review.
State your topic's relevance
Think of your review paper as a statement in the
larger conversation of your academic community.
Your review is your way of entering into that
conversation and it is important to briefly address why
your review is relevant to the discussion. You may feel
the relevance is obvious because you are so familiar
with the topic, but your readers have not yet
esatblished that familiarity.
Reveal your thesis to the reader
The thesis is the main idea that you want to get
across to your reader. your thesis should be a clear
statement of what you intend to prove or illustrate by
your review. By revealing your thesis in the
introduction the reader knows what to expect in the
rest of the paper.
• Make it brief (~1/5 of the paper’s total length).
• Grab the reader's interest while introducing the
topic.
• Explain the "big picture" relevance.
• Provide the necessary background information.
Body of the Paper Don't Summarize!
A review paper is not simply a summary of literature
you have reviewed. Be careful not to leave out your
3. own analysis of the ideas presented in the literature.
Synthesize the material from all the works—what are
the connections you see, or the connections you are
trying to illustrate, among your readings.
Analyze, synthesize, and interpret.
A review paper is not a pure summary of the
information you read for your review. You are required
to analyze, synthesize, and interpret the information
you read in some meaningful way.
It is not enough to simply present the material you
have found, you must go beyond that and explain its
relevance and significance to the topic at hand.
Establish a clear thesis from the onset of your writing
and examine which pieces of your reading help you in
developing and supporting the ideas in your thesis.
Stay focused.
Keep your discussion focused on your topic and more
importantly your thesis. Don't let tangents or
extraneous material get in the way of a concise,
coherent discussion. A well focused paper is crucial in
getting your message across to your reader.
Organize your points.
Keeping your points organized makes it easier for the
reader to follow along and make sense of your review.
Start each paragraph with a topic sentence that
relates back to your thesis. The headings used for this
guide give you some idea of how to organize the
overall paper, but as far as the discussion section
goes use meaningful subheadings that relate to your
content to organize your points.
Conclusion Because the conclusions section often gets left for last
it is often the weakest part of a student review paper.
It is as crucial a part of the paper as any and should
be treated as such.
4. A good conclusion should illustrate the key
connections between your major points and your
thesis as well as they key connections between your
thesis and the broader discussion—what is the
significance of your paper in a larger context? Make
some conclusions—where have you arrived as a
result of writing this paper?
Be careful not to present any new information in the
conclusion section.
References Here you report all the works you have cited in your
paper using the following format depending on your
refernce material.
BOOKS
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of book. Location: Publisher.
ARTICLES
Journal Article (print):
For articles with up to and including 7 authors*,
include the names of all authors.
Author, A. A., and Author, B.B. (Year). Title of article.
Title of Journal, volume number(issue number),
pages.
Kozma, A., and Stones, M.J. (1983). Re-validation of
the Memorial University of Newfoundland scale of
happiness.
Canadian Journal on Aging, 2(1), 27-29.
Journal Article (online):
Provide the doi number (Digital Object Identifier).
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal,
volume number(issue number), pages. doi:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fuller, D. (2002). Critical friendships: Reading
women's writing communities in Newfoundland.
Women's Studies International Forum, 25(2), 247-260.
5. doi: 10.1016/S0277-5395(02)00234-0
WEBSITES
*if no publication date is available, use (n.d.) for "no
date". If no author is available, begin Reference list
entry with the the title.
Entire Website
Author, A.A. (Date). Title of web site. Retrieved from
http://homepage address
Page/Document on a Website
Author, A.A. (Date). Title of page/document. In Title of
web site. Retrieved from http://URL link to specific
page/document
Note: This is the criteria of how your review will be rated.
6. SUMMARY
RUBRIC
CATEGORY 4 3 2 1 NS/0
Content: Organization is a A logical progression One or more major Ideas/events are This code may be used
ORGANIZATION logical progression of of ideas/events and lapses in the logical presented in a for compositions that are
ideas/events and is is reasonably progression of random fashion.• entirely illegible or
unified and complete. complete, although ideas/events is Title of article and otherwise unscorable:
Title of article and minor lapses may be evident. No title/ author’s name are blank responses,
author’s name are present. Title of author’s name are included in the text. responses written in a
included in the text. article and/or included in the text. Direct quotes aren't foreign language,
Direct quotes are author’s name are Direct quotes are placed in quotation restatements of the
placed in quotation included in the text. placed in quotation marks and in MLA prompt, responses that
marks and in MLA or Direct quotes are marks and in MLA or APA format. . are off-topic or
APA format. . placed in quotation or APA format. . incoherent.
marks and in MLA or
APA format. .
Content: FOCUS Topic/subject is clear, Topic/subject is Topic/subject may Topic/subject is This code may be used
though it may/may generally clear be vague. unclear or for compositions that are
not be explicitly though it may not be confusing. entirely illegible or
stated. explicitly stated. otherwise unscorable:
blank responses,
responses written in a
foreign language,
restatements of the
prompt, responses that
are off-topic or
incoherent.
Content: Sufficiently analysis Some analysis lacks Analyzes Barely analyzes Lacks analysis of the
Analysis, salient points about supporting examples. superficially salient salient points of the topic.
the topic with the points of the topic topic.
Synthesis and supporting examples. with some limited
Interpretation examples.
Sources All sources All sources All sources Some sources are All sources are not
(information and (information and (information and not accurately documented.
graphics) are graphics) are graphics) are documented.
accurately accurately accurately
documented in the documented, but a documented, but
desired format. few are not in the many are not in the
desired format. desired format.