Literature Review: Full Draft

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Purpose

This assignment is intended to help you learn to do the following:

  • Create a complete, coherent literature review.
  • Practice the recursiveness of the writing, research, and reading processes.
  • Develop genre competency and savvy through reading and writing.
  • Reflect critically on writing habits and the writing process.
  • Apply feedback systems (peers, faculty, Learning Commons, etc.)

Action Items

  1. Review the requirements for a literature review, as described in the Literature Review Assignment Description.
  2. Review your intro and first section of your literature review, which you developed in the Literature Review: Partial Draft assignment in Unit 7.
  3. Review and consider the feedback you received from your peer in the Comparative Peer Review: Partial Draft assignment in Unit 8.
  4. Develop a full first draft of your literature review. Your literature review should be approximately 12-16 pages, conform to APA style, and include the following components:
    1. An introduction that:
      1. Outlines the rationale (i.e., the problem of practice and the problem or gap of research) you hope to address.
      2. Provides a brief overview of the central themes, trends, and patterns you have observed in a given field.
      3. Introduces the research question(s) you are pursuing.
      4. Outlines the central takeaway(s) from the review of the literature as it has been conducted thus far.
    2. A series of “body” sections that discuss the particular themes, trends, and patterns you have observed in considerable depth.
    3. A conclusion in which you discuss what implications the literature review has for your own research and/or future research in the field more generally.
    4. A Reference list that includes approximately 25 sources that you have cited in your literature review.