Literature Review

Literature Review Skills:  The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course, for the overall development of your skills in accessing, reviewing, and critiquing the peer-reviewed literature, for identifying previous studies that inform your decision to use (or not use) an intervention with a client population in clinical social work practice, and for the development of graduate-level writing and critical thinking skills. These skills include:

·  Displaying your depth of knowledge on a topic or issue through writing,

·  Comparing, analyzing, and evaluating the scholarly writing of others,

·  Understanding of scholarly writing, debates, and competing arguments,

·  Beginning awareness of different research methodologies,

·  Ability to construct your own argument while citing the published work previously conducted in your field,

·  Conduct research in the peer-reviewed literature

·  Identify the gaps in the literature, and

·  Taking responsibility for the direction of your learning by pursuing a topic area that is interesting to you.

Literature Review Product

· A cover sheet in APA format (not included in page count)

· Please include your research question, hypothesis, independent variables, and the dependent variable (that you created during the discussion board assignment) on the second page so I can stay updated (this does not count toward your page count)

· A concisely written 5-page literature review

Subheadings should include (subheadings can be shortened as needed and #3 and #4 below should be altered so that they pertain to your specific variables rather than the generic examples below)

· Description and definition of the dependent variable

· Magnitude of the problem (quantified)

· Literature review of studies on 1st independent variable (intervention) to treat your dependent variable

· Literature review of studies on 2nd independent variable (intervention) to treat your dependent variable

· Gaps in the literature and the need for your proposed study

· References in APA 7th edition (no limit on the number, but most papers of this nature and length have no less than 10-15 different scholarly references. Only peer-reviewed or government sources can be used. Please do not cite websites (unless government websites) nor foundations/advocacy groups). The reference page is not included in page count).

· Your paper is limited to three quotes or less. Quoted statements must also include a page number in the in-text reference (for example: Fernandez et al., 2020, p. 11).

· Paragraphs in APA format are at least three sentences in length.

· Papers must be reviewed by the writing center prior to submission. Students should use the “TurnItIn Check” in Canvas prior to submission and should modify their papers to rectify any phrasing that is too close to the original source. Finally, papers should be submitted to grammarly.com and all grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors should be corrected prior to submission.

· Please note: the cover sheet and reference pages are not included in the 5-page literature review page count. 

· Please upload the completed assignment to the assignments portal on Canvas.