research question week 6

Literature Review Worksheet

Now that you have found resources related to your research question and summarized them in your annotated bibliography, the next step is to look further into how they relate to each other and shed light on your research question. This document walks you through the steps you need to take to turn those sources into a Literature Review.

Week 5: Critical Thinking in Psychology

Identifying Themes, Supporting Ideas, and References

Now that you have summarized your research, it is time to compare the insights from each article. It is also time to identify key themes from your articles to use as the organizing principles of your Literature Review assignment.

Complete the following:

1. Review your notes in the tables of your Annotated Bibliography Worksheet.

2. Compare and contrast your notes on each article against the others and reflect on the following questions:

· What themes or patterns do you see emerging? 

· Does each article relate to your research question in the same way, or are they different? 

· Is there an answer to your research question that is evident? 

· Or is more research needed?

3. Distill your ideas down to at least three themes that will become the structure for your main body paragraphs in your assignment.

4. Use the table below to outline your ideas.

· Document the themes in the left column.

· Use the middle column to outline key ideas that support your themes such as definitions, strategies, theories, or models.

· Use the right column to outline the text or cite the pages and content within your articles that support your theme and ideas.

Themes	Supporting Ideas	Supporting References

Week 6: Writing Your Literature Review

Drafting Your Literature Review

Now it is time to integrate your findings from your articles and create your paper draft.

Complete the following:

5. Use your outline in the table above to draft the body sections of your paper in the Literature Review Template.

6. Use the prompts in the Introduction section of the Literature Review Template to draft the introduction to your paper.

7. Use the prompts in the Conclusion section of the Literature Review Template to draft the conclusion to your paper.

8. Review your draft and revise to improve the flow of the components as an integrated paper.

9. Review the work you completed in your worksheet and make sure you included all the elements in your paper draft.

10. Use Smarthinking: How to Submit a Writing Sample to submit your draft for evaluation.

11. Submit a draft of your assignment to SafeAssign for review of proper citations and references. Refer to the courseroom SafeAssign resources for guidance in accessing your feedback from SafeAssign, interpreting your report, and improving your writing and citations for your assignment.

12. Review the feedback from Smarthinking and SafeAssign and brainstorm strategies for revising your draft.

Complete the following:

13. Review the feedback you received from Smarthinking and SafeAssign and revise your draft.

14. At this point, your paper should include at least four scholarly, peer-reviewed references. If you do not meet this requirement, go back and locate additional references to integrate into the paper.

15. Your paper should also be 4–6 typed and double-spaced content pages excluding the title page, abstract, and reference list. If you do not meet this requirement, go back and add more detailed explanation to your paper. You may want to reread your references to gather further insights to integrate into the paper. Be sure to use Times New Roman 12-point font throughout the paper.

16. Review the scoring guide for the assignment to be sure you have met all of the requirements. You may also find it useful to score yourself using the rubric.

17. Revise your assignment to include elements from any unmet criteria in the rubric.

18. If you have questions, ask your instructor to clarify the requirements and expectations for the assignment.