1. Roll
2. Questions on BA 4?
3. Changes in office hours – office hours by appointment this week
4. Discuss Student Example of Lit Review Draft 1.2 – Grade based on Lit Review Scoring Guide
5. Critique of Synthesis - BA3
6. Outline Activity
The outline for your literature review might look something like this:
I. A growing body of research indicates that the effects of violence in the media have been overstated.
•A. The seminal study in this area is by Smith, who argues...
•B. Drawing upon Smith, Johnson takes the argument a step further and argues...
•C. Somewhat in contrast to Smith and Johnson is Garcia, who argues...
•D. Taking the argument in a new direction is Brown, who argues....
II. More specifically, recent research has also called into questions the popular public assumption that video game violence leads to real life violence.
•A. One important research study that demonstrates this was conducted by Cohen and Williams, who found that...
•B. A much different study that yielded similar results was conducted by Green, who found...
•C. A similar study was conducted by Kelly, who argued....
And so on…
7. Outlining Activity
8. Review Draft 1.1
Assignment
Reading
E-Handbook: 13, 15, and 17
Assignment: Draft 1.1: Literature Review
Objective: To demonstrate your ability to analyze and synthesize research on a given topic into a literature review.
Description: Now that you have developed an understanding of how literature reviews are put together and function, you will write a literature review of your own on the topic of your choice. Remember, your literature review must do more than just summarize the information. A literature review discusses previously published information about a particular topic or issue in order to accomplish the following tasks:
· show readers what has been written about a topic, so that they can understand a particular development of ideas concerning that topic
· explain to readers why certain ideas or theories concerning a topic are being challenged or reexamined by researchers.
· help readers understand more about why a topic is being examined by a researcher in a particular way
Remember that many academic papers use the information presented in the literature review as the basis for making an argument or presenting results of research. It’s important to understand that a literature review is not the same thing as an academic research paper. A research paper supports your own argument or position about a topic; a literature review is written to summarize and synthesize other people’s ideas and perspectives about a topic. A free-standing literature review, which is what you are writing here, has a thesis statement. However, remember that the focus of that thesis statement is on the sources. A thesis statement for a literature review must have as its subject the literature. For example, an appropriate statement for a literature review on tax code reform might be as follows: “Although, historically, some economists have discouraged a flat tax, a large number of recent publications are making the case that such a strategy is a beneficial option.”
Your review will discuss at least eight sources, all of which must be located via the TTU library databases and online catalog. Your sources should be scholarly or other reputable or credible articles.
Minimum word count: 1500 words
Format: MLA style for internal citations and works cited
9. Lit Review Scoring Guide:
C1—Issue Identification and Focus
Does the student do a thorough job of explaining his or her purpose for the review? Does the research/scholarly work take precedence? Is the significance of the scholarly work clearly stated?
C3—Sources and Evidence
Does the student use scholarly/reputable sources? Does the student synthesize the sources, not only summarizing the scholarly perspectives but also providing insight into the significance of the scholars’ contributions and their relationship to each other?
C5—Own Perspective
Is the student’s voice apparent throughout the analysis?
C6—Conclusion
How effectively does the conclusion pull the analysis together?
C7—Communication
How effective is the organization of the review? How effective is the student’s writing at the sentence level?
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