Research Question and Literature Review

Prompt: Paper Two--Literature Review Your General Research Topic: Higher Education

Developed research question:

Topic: International students and higher education

For paper two, you will write a self-contained literature review of 5-6 critical/scholarly sources that addresses your specific research topic or research question.

The purpose of the assignment will be to more fully understand the complexity of the topic and to help you begin to develop an informed position within the conversation that you will later defend in your research paper.

Your literature review will contain:

· a title page

· an introduction that

· introduces the sub-topic and develops its context

· identifies why/to whom this sub-topic is valuable

· announces the purpose of the review

· a body that

· is divided into three or more topical sub-headings

· summarizes the sources in relation to those headings

· synthesizes the sources in relation to one another (puts the article ideas in conversation with one another)

· evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of sources in relation to those headings

· a conclusion that 

· recaps the topics/perspectives that are well-covered by the research

· identifies topics/perspectives that are under examined by the research

· poses possible questions you would want to answer if you were to develop this topic into a research paper

· a references page

Additional Requirements

· APA style and format guidelines

· 5-6 critical/scholarly sources

· Approx. 1500-200 words