For this assignment you are asked to complete a small-scale literature review on an educational topic of your choice. You are asked to locate at least 7 educational journal articles on your topic and write a 4 -5-page literature review on the articles you’ve selected.
Steps to complete your small-scale literature review:
· Choose an educational topic that you are interested in studying.
· Formulate an inquiry question that specifically describes what would like to know about your educational topic.
· Go to the library to search for and locate journals that include your topic’s information.
· Find articles, read the abstracts, and skim the articles to determine if they correspond well to your topic AND inquiry question.
· Select at least 7 journal articles and photocopy them for your project.
· Read your articles and begin to sort and classify them according to their findings.
· Organize your articles by sorting and classifying their findings in a meaningful way, always considering your original topic and inquiry question.
· Write an outline for your small-scale literature review.
· Write your review.
A literature review is a descriptive summary of research on a topic that has previously been studied. The purpose of a literature review is to inform readers of the significant knowledge and ideas that have been established on a topic. Its purpose is to compare, contrast and/or connect findings that were identified when reviewing researchers’ work. Oftentimes, literature reviews are written to ground a 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.