Sample Literature Review

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Part I: The Literature Review

The Basic Structure of the RESEARCH PAPER

Which parts have you done?

Which parts have you done?

What comes NEXT?

What comes NEXT?

What IS a Literature Review???

Think about this…

Literature

Review what could it be?

What IS a Literature Review???

Usually, PART of a research paper

An objective summary of what the research literature says about your topic or question.

A demonstration of your familiarity with pertinent work in the field.

A research history, upon which later research can be built.

What IS a Literature Review???

Usually, PART of a research paper

Contains several objective summaries of what the research literature says about your topic or question.

A demonstration of your familiarity with pertinent work in the field.

A research history, upon which later research can be built.

What IS a Literature Review???

Usually, PART of a research paper

Contains several objective summaries of what the research literature says about your topic or question.

A demonstration of your familiarity with pertinent work in the field.

A research history, upon which later research can be built.

What IS a Literature Review???

Usually, PART of a research paper

An objective summary of what the research literature says about your topic or question.

A demonstration of your familiarity with pertinent work in the field.

A research history, upon which later research can be built.

Let’s look at two samples:

1. Student sample 2. Doctoral sample

First, the Student sample on p. 49 to 51in your manuals.

Treasure hunt! See if you can find two compare/contrast transition phrases at the beginnings of two of the paragraphs on page 50

Now, a Doctoral sample

In this week’s folder:

”Dr. Bouteneff Dissertation-see chapter 2”

note: it’s in a slightly different style (APA 5), and the introductory paragraph is not written in the way you will write yours, but still worth looking at!

(When will you get YOUR doctorate??)

A literature review consists of 3 parts

1. Introduction Paragraph for the Literature Review

2. Review of Literature

3. Analysis of Literature

See page 42 in your resource manuals

A literature review consists of 3 parts

1. Introduction Paragraph for the Literature Review

2. Review of Literature

3. Analysis of Literature

A literature review consists of 3 parts

1. Introduction Paragraph for the Literature Review

2. Review of Literature

3. Analysis of Literature

A literature review consists of 3 parts

1. Introduction Paragraph for the Literature Review

2. Review of Literature

3. Analysis of Literature

What part of the literature review

have you started on?

1. Introduction Paragraph for the Literature Review

2. Review of Literature

3. Analysis of Literature

Without even realizing it!!

What part of the literature review

have you started on?

1. Introduction Paragraph for the Literature Review

2. Review of Literature

3. Analysis of Literature

What part of the literature review

have you started on?

1. Introduction Paragraph for the Literature Review

2. Review of Literature (Wait! What?? How??)

3. Analysis of Literature

Your

GRADED and REVISED Objective Summary

will be copied right into the

Review of Literature (with your three more,

newly written objective summaries)

BUT…

In what order will you

present the research?

I have a task to help you with this! To Blackboard! First I will show you your task and then expand

upon its importance to your paper.

To make your literature review “flow,” you will need to see what is the same and what is different among them: (Remember the treasure hunt? )

• like

• similar to

• also

• in the same way

• at the same time

• unlike

• in contrast

• contrasted with

• on the contrary

• while…

compare contrastand

Part II: Level Headings

Now, organize them according to patterns you found, and use appropriate level headings to guide your reader

Level I header

Your written work goes here in paragraph

format only.

Level II Header (sub-level of H1)

Your written work goes here in paragraph

format only.

Level III Header (sub-level of H2)

Your written work goes here in paragraph

format only.

Let’s take a look at a fellow student’s research paper Week 6 folder

Just a Note about your Review of Literature!

Typically, each level heading should include at least

three research articles, but, as this is a foundations

course, you will only provide a total of four research

articles for your Literature Review and you need a

minimum of 2 Level II headers

Part III: Workshop!

Ready, Set, GO! 1. Pull up the p. 13a in your Final ‘Mission’ Packet. Here, you have

your W(5) H(1) notes for EACH research article. IF you do not have ALL FOUR research articles, find them now. RESUBMIT 13a. Phase I and complete Phase II in your packet before moving onto #2.

2. Open and complete p. 16a in your Final ‘Mission’ Packet which will help you compare and contrast your research articles to decide upon the order you will present them in your Review of Literature.

3. CUT and PASTE p. 16a it into a new Word document to be submitted to Blackboard for HW.

Congratulations! You just completed the necessary work to help you determine the order of articles for your Review of Literature!

1. Introduction Paragraph for the Literature Review

2. Review of Literature

3. Analysis of Literature