Overview
In this 9-10-page essay, you will compile a review of literature of a topic centering on intercultural communication. You must use academic sources, books and online journal articles available through university library databases. Summarize the literature, contexts, and key aspects of the issue. Cite your sources using APA style (minimum 6 academic sources not including our textbook).
The literature review is a comprehensive review of, at least 12 sources you have already researched, presented in an integrative and critical fashion, with a revised references page, maintaining APA style.
A Literature Review is a coherent essay of literature. A Literature Review is a coherent summary in thematic format of the literature you have already gathered. This is a review of the literature directly related to the topic or problem under study. The purpose of the literature review is to know what others have discovered before you begin your investigation of your own, to ground your study in a particular context of what is known about a subject in order to establish a foundation for the topic (or question) being researched.
The desired outcomes of this assignment include providing students an opportunity to develop their abilities to research a topic of study so they can learn to (1) identify and formulate an inquiry question that defines what you’d like to learn, (2) know how to search and locate literature (e.g.. Journal articles) using library and internet resources; (3) analyze information found in educational journal articles, and (4) synthesize new knowledge into a written literature review and (5) establish context for your inquiries.
Assignment Description:
For this assignment, your task as a group is to complete a literature review building upon your research proposal. You are asked to locate at least 16 academic journal articles (you may use articles you have addressed in previous essays or assignments from this class) on your topic. Lastly, you are to write a 9 to 10 page (not including references page) literature review on the articles you’ve selected.
Steps to complete your literature review:
- Review this lib guide site that provides tips and additional information about creating a literature review https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/literaturer....
- Continue with the research question you developed or write a new research question that specifically describes what would like to know about your educational topic (you’ve done this in the proposal and annotated bibliography, but you can always refine your inquiry questions after you know more about your area through reading the literature).
- Organize your articles by sorting and classifying (creating themes) their findings in a meaningful way, always considering your original topic and inquiry question.
- Develop an outline for your literature review based on your themes.
- Write a draft of your literature review following your outline as a guide to synthesize and critique the literature on your topic.
- Revise and edit your essay.