research and critical analysis Feb 16

W E LC O M E !!!!

Today:

1.Define Literature Review

2.Write Part 2 of the Literature Review!

The Basic Structure of a 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,

1. PART of a research paper

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

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

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

What IS a Literature Review???

Usually,

1. PART of a research paper

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

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

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

What IS a Literature Review???

Usually,

1. PART of a research paper

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

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

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

What IS a Literature Review??? Usually,

1. PART of a research paper

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

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

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

Let’s look at two samples:

1. Student sample 2. Doctoral sample

First, find the

Student sample of Part 2

in this week’s folder.

Treasure hunt! See if you can find compare/contrast transition phrases at the start of paragraphs near the end of page 2 and around the middle of page 3!

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

A literature review consists of 3 parts

1. Introduction Paragraph for the Literature Review

A literature review consists of 3 parts

1. Introduction Paragraph for the Literature Review

2. Review 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?

What part of the literature review

have you started on?

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

YES!!! Your

GRADED and REVISED Objective Summaries

will be copied right into the

Review of Literature

BUT…

Is that all?

BUT…

Is that all?

ALMOST!

To make your literature review “flow,” you will need to see what is the same and what is different among your articles: (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 and contrast

Ready, Set, GO!

1. Pull up your excel worksheet and read the WHY column to determine what order to put your articles in.

To decide what order to put your articles in, you may find you have two with a similar purpose, for example, and you put those together

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

Now, organize the objective summaries

according to patterns you found, and use

appropriate level headings to guide your

reader

Part II: Level Headings

Let’s look at headings in your

student sample of the paper

A Note about your Review of the 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!

Now…. Write Part 2 of the Review of Literature!!!

(Are you scared??)

1st paragraph is the objective summary of the first research

article with limitations.

2nd paragraph includes a transition word from the first research

article to the objective summary of the second research article with

limitations.

3rd paragraph includes a transition word from the first research

article to the objective summary of the second research article with

limitations.

Check the Flow!

Is organized by purpose?

Uses headings to help your readers find their way?

Uses transition words like compare/contrast words so the reader sees

the flow from article to article?

Sample comparison words Sample contrast words

…similar to… …different from…

…like… …however…

…also… …on the other hand…