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Take a look at the literature review that you chose as a model text. Reading the review rhetorically, write about each of these questions.
Each box represents 40 points towards a total of 200. Not a quiz, this is an important part of Writing Project 3. Instead of searching for the ‘right answer’, concentrate on finding clues to help you produce your own LR.
This is war. The text is holding back its secrets. Attack!
1. Since lit reviews are so dense, authors have to find ways to make them easier to follow and find specific sections. This could be in very obvious ways like using bold print or larger fonts, or more subtle approaches such as using repetition and metaphor to show themes, or transitional sentences and phrases to show a shift in content.
Describe how the author increased readability of a difficult text. Give examples.
2. A literature review is essentially the history of ideas, and, so it needs an organizational pattern. Many use a chronological approach, some are by publication date, and others are thematic.
What can you point to that shows how the author organized the lit review? Give a sample.
3. Rather than just listing the contributions of others, lit reviews analyze and critique the sources they discuss.
Analyze how the author uses sources and paraphrase a critique of one of them.
4. Literature reviews read differently in various disciplines. They range from very formal to more exploratory and even poetic. In the same way, word choice often shows a keen understanding of the writer’s target audience.
What can you say about the tone, vocabulary, and awareness of audience? Use quotes to give examples.
5. Do the author’s sources merely state or say their contributions, or do they assert, contribute, question, or retort? Be aware of the reporting verbs that are used.
List some examples of reporting verbs you are not used to seeing. Reproduce your favorite and explain why
You can erase any details except the numbers and boxes containing your analysis, or open a separate document and type your observations there. Submit it as a Word docx or PDF attachment. Attach the PDF of your model with your submission.
Attack the Text!
Doc Attack #1
Take a look at the literature review that you chose as a
model text. Reading the review rhetorically,
write about
each of these
questions
.
Each box represents
4
0 points
towards a total of 200
.
Not a quiz, this is an important part of Writing Project 3.
Instead of searching for the
‘
right answer
’
, concentrate
on finding clues to help you produce your own LR.
This is war. The text is holding back its secre
ts. Attack!
1.
Since lit reviews are so dense, authors have to find ways to make them easier to follow and
find specific sections. This could be in very obvious ways like using bold print or
larger
fonts, or more subtle approaches such as using repetition and metaphor to show themes, or
transitional sentences and phrases to show a shift in content.
2.
A literature review is essentially the history of ideas, and, so it needs an organizational
pa
ttern. Many use a chronological approach, some are by publication date, and others are
thematic.
Describe how the author increased readability of a difficult text. Give examples.
What can you point to that shows how the author organized the lit review?
Give a sample.
Doc Attack #1
Take a look at the literature review that you chose as a
model text. Reading the review rhetorically, write about
each of these questions.
Each box represents 40 points towards a total of 200.
Not a quiz, this is an important part of Writing Project 3.
Instead of searching for the ‘right answer’, concentrate
on finding clues to help you produce your own LR.
This is war. The text is holding back its secrets. Attack!
1. Since lit reviews are so dense, authors have to find ways to make them easier to follow and
find specific sections. This could be in very obvious ways like using bold print or larger
fonts, or more subtle approaches such as using repetition and metaphor to show themes, or
transitional sentences and phrases to show a shift in content.
2. A literature review is essentially the history of ideas, and, so it needs an organizational
pattern. Many use a chronological approach, some are by publication date, and others are
thematic.
Describe how the author increased readability of a difficult text. Give examples.
What can you point to that shows how the author organized the lit review? Give a sample.
