LITERATURE REVIEW – 9-10 pages APA Microsoft Word

 

Assignment

Instructions

LITERATURE REVIEW

Overview

For this assignment, you will develop a condensed literature review on a topic you chose. The literature you select should be relevant to a current issue, problem, innovation, change, or trend in your field or specialization. My Specialized Field is Healthcare Administration

Writing a literature review is a key part of academic work. A literature review is a piece of writing that describes what has been learned about a topic through previous research efforts. The literature review is essentially a report on work previously done in a field, to show an understanding of the context for your own writing.

Your literature review should include a minimum of five references from peer-reviewed journal articles related to your field or specialization. 

Literature Review Guide

A literature review is not a summary of individual sources in a list, such as in the form of an annotated bibliography. Instead, the literature review should integrate in-text citations within the paragraphs to support your analysis of the scholarly readings you selected. You will seek key themes from the different scholarly journals.

Use Academic Writer for guidance in citing sources and formatting your paper in proper APA style. See the 

Evidence and APA

 section of the Writing Center for instructions on accessing and using Academic Writer. 

Critical thinking: Be sure to analyze and evaluate the articles, not just report what was written. What should you add?

Integration: Integrate information from across the sources in your review. Look for themes and commonalities. Do not just review one article after another in a linear fashion. Use headings and subheadings to organize your paper around themes you identify.

Review of the rubric: Apply critical thinking to analyze scholarly articles and point out conflicting evidence or perspectives. Apply critical thinking to evaluate scholarly articles and identify criteria used for evaluation. Synthesize information to identify missing information that limits understanding of the topic.

Critical Thinking Examples

Apply principles of critical thinking to analyze scholarly articles and point out any conflicting evidence or perspectives. For example: 

• “Articles X and Y (citation) promote a constructivist approach, which is in direct contrast to the behaviorist approach advocated in article Z (citation).”

Apply principles of critical thinking to evaluate scholarly articles and identify the criteria used for the evaluation. For example:

• “There is a weakness in the inference made by the author (citation), as the conclusion of XXXX was not clearly supported by the data.”
• “The author (citation) never clearly defined the concept of XYZ.”

Synthesize information gathered in a review of scholarly literature and identify any missing information that limits understanding of the topic. For example:

• “The five articles addressed how schools are approaching XXX, but they all focused on suburban, public schools. More breadth of scope is needed to fully understand the implications of the issue.”

Instructions

Before you begin your paper, examine the scoring guide to see the grading criteria. 

Paper Organization

Start with a title page and organize your paper with the following guidelines:

• Title page: Use [Chosen Topic]: Literature Review as your paper title.
• Introduction: The opening content should directly follow the title of the paper (repeated from the title page) and provide an introduction of your chosen topic and overview of what will be included in your paper.
• Overview of topic: Begin the body of your paper with an overview of the topic you chose for this review. Your topic description can begin with a broad consideration related to education. Write in third person and include literature support. 
• Topic relation to specialization: Provide a detailed description and examples of how the topic you chose to review specifically relates to your specialization. Write in third person and include literature support. 
• Review of the literature: The literature review should include a minimum of five references from peer-reviewed journal articles related to your education specialization.

  Keep in mind, as you review your articles, the process of questioning. For example, how the articles present similar or contrasting information about your topic, how well the articles support your perspective on the topic, and if you discovered something new about your topic through your literature review.
  Continue to write in third person and leverage the literature.
  Apply principles of critical thinking to your analyses and evaluations of the literature you review. 

• Conclusion: Your conclusion should emphasize the main themes in your paper and provide a synthesis of the literature reviewed.
• References: Include a minimum of five different scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles (related to your field of specialization) that are also cited in the paper. Your citations must have references, and your references need to be included within your paper as in-text citations.

Research Guides

Refer to the

EdD Program Library Research Guide

 and the 

EdS Program Library Research Guide

for guidance on gathering scholarly resources. 

Additional Requirements

In addition to the requirements outlined above, your assignment should meet the following:

• Assignment template: Use the Sample Course Paper Template [DOCX] for the assignment.
• Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Sources: A minimum five peer-reviewed scholarly sources.
• APA formatting: Follow current APA style and formatting for in-text citations. For more information on the APA guidelines for in-text citations, go to Academic Writer and use the Learn tab to find the Quick Guides on Citing Sources and Paper Format and Organization.

  Include a title page with the following title: [Chosen Topic]: Literature Review. 
  Be sure to include, on the references page, a minimum of five different scholarly, peer-reviewed journals (related to your field of specialization) that are also cited in the paper. Your citations must have references, and your references should be included within your paper as in-text citations.

• Length: The paper should be 7–10 double-spaced pages in length, in addition to the title page and references page.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

1/16/2021

Literature Review Scoring Guide

https://courseroomc.capella.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/EDD/EDD8010/210100/Scoring_Guides/u04a1_scoring_guide.html 1/1

Literature Review Scoring Guide

Due Date: End of Unit 4
Percentage of Course Grade: 24%.

CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED

Describe
details relevant to
one’s critical
reflection on the
selected
information.
20%

Does not
describe
details
relevant to
one’s critical
reflection on
the selected
information.

Describes details
relevant to one’s
critical reflection on
the selected
information, but the
details provided are
inappropriate or
flawed.

Describes details
relevant to one’s
critical reflection
on the selected
information.

Describes details relevant to one’s
critical reflection on the selected
information and explains why they
were selected.

Identify relevant
scholarly journal
articles that relate to
one’s study.

20%

Does not
identify
relevant
scholarly
journal
articles that
relate to one’s
study.

Identifies scholarly
journal articles that
relate to one’s study,
but the articles are
not relevant or are
inadequate for the
task.

Identifies relevant
scholarly journal
articles that relate
to one’s study.

Identifies relevant scholarly journal
articles that relate to one’s study,
and selects articles from peer-
reviewed journals.

Evaluate scholarly
articles using
principles of critical
thinking.

20%

Does not
describe
scholarly
articles using
principles of
critical
thinking.

Describes scholarly
articles using
principles of critical
thinking.

Evaluates
scholarly articles
using principles of
critical thinking.

Evaluates scholarly articles using
principles of critical thinking, and
synthesizes knowledge by using
terms from one article to discuss
terms of another.

Analyze information
gathered in a
literature review.

20%

Does not
analyze
information
gathered in a
literature
review.

Analyzes information
gathered in a
literature review, but
the analysis is
incomplete or flawed.

Analyzes
information
gathered in a
literature review.

Analyzes information gathered in
a literature review and identifies
questions and/or missing
information relevant to a problem
of practice.

Integrate
appropriate use of
scholarly sources,
evidence, and APA
citation style.

20%

Does not
integrate APA
citation style
in the text and
references
page.

Attempts to integrate
APA citation style in
the text and
references page, but
the formatting is often
incorrect.

Integrates
appropriate use of
scholarly sources,
evidence, and
APA citation style
in the text and
references page.

Integrates appropriate use of
scholarly sources, evidence, and
APA citation style in the text and
references page and effectively
paraphrases and summarizes to
represent ideas from external
sources.