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LITERATURE REVIEW

Peer Review	4+ full pages	Monday, May 14th Due in-class.
Draft	4+ full pages	Thursday, May 17th Due on Canvas by 8 am.
Revised Draft	4+ full pages	Monday, May 28th Due on Canvas by 11 pm.

PURPOSE: You will successfully research, analyze and synthesize articles surrounding a topic of inquiry. You will be making connections between texts and seeing how the texts respond to one another in that academic conversation. You will acknowledge trends and ideas.

Skills: The purpose of this Literature Review will allow you to practice and develop the following skills that you will need in this course, school, and professional fields:

· Research skills

· Appropriate judgment for the rhetorical situations

· Synthesizing a variety of ideas

· Learning to appropriately enter an academic conversation

Knowledge: You will learn who the experts are in the field you are researching.

TASK: You will select 6-10 scholarly peer-reviewed sources of a diverse range of viewpoints surrounding the topic you chose from the core articles. From your research, develop connections between ideas and authors. Create a unique thesis that adequately provides structure that introduces the reader to the conversation and ideas that will be presented in the literature review. The Literature Review should focus on the conversation of the experts; what are the central points; how has the issue been framed and reframed; what questions are researchers asking and answering; what are the prevailing theories; which experts are agreeing and disagreeing, and; who are the experts that fall into the “gray” area of the conversation?

Grading Criteria:

· Identify the main claims, ideas, and positions, and synthesize sources together

· Quotes are chosen carefully to illustrate the conversation and are integrated seamlessly into the paper

· Logical organization/structure for your sources, guided by the thesis

· Chronological, thematic, methodological, methods and/or standards, and trends.

· You refrain from inserting evaluative judgements and instead provide an overview of the conversation

· 4+ pages, Times New Roman font, double-spaced with regular margins, and proper MLA format

· Includes a Works Cited page, which does not count toward page length requirements

· Grammar conventions and mechanics