Week 8 - Literature Review

Week 8 - It's our last week!!!

For this last week, which is week 8, you will put all of your work together in a 2-3 page literature review. This work will analyze the sources you have selected to best represent your research question. Please do not just recycle your old papers. While it is ok to specifically select citations and their corresponding passages, I would prefer you select new material more closely aligned with your new research abilities. 
You are able to re-use up to four of your previous citations, but I would encourage new information and paragraphs not just reusing your all your old assignments.

Not a research paper. Focus on the main articles in your field and how they assist your work.  2-3 page literature review, double spaced.

Short for a reason focused on what has been done in the field, who is the top players are and what still needs to be done. (Badke, 2015).

What is the best work for the topic or issue?

The condensed style should help you to focus answer your question and prove to me as the instructor reader how the articles assisted to answer your final paper.

6 sources required three of which are journals. You can use up to four of your previous articles.

Cover page  - Running head: AMERICAS WAR ON TERROR      

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In the introduction you should:

a. define or identify the general topic, issue or area of concern

b. point out overall trends in what has already been published

c. establish your point of view for reviewing the literature [Include your research question!]

d. indicate the organization of the review

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II. Body In the body you should:

A. group research studies and other relevant literature according to a common theme [for example, you may find prevailing theories and/or practices involved with your research; you can use these as thematic sections for the body of your literature review]

B. summarize each item of the literature appropriately according to its significance

C. compare and evaluate each item of the literature

D. provide topic sentences at the beginning of paragraphs and summary sentences at the end of sections to help the reader understand what the main issues are

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III. Conclusion

In the conclusion you should:

a. summarize the literature maintaining the focus presented in the introduction

b. evaluate the current "state of the art" [or state of the topic that represents your research question] [by] pointing out gaps in the literature, inconsistencies and issues that are important for future study

c. conclude by giving some insight into the relationship between your topic and a larger area of study or area of professional practice

Week 6 Open Access Journals

Week 6 - Open Access Journals

I want to make sure all of the class is on the same page for week 6. For this week you will NOT use Leatherby Libraries instead you will choose one of these open Access databases listed here and find an article. With the rain we only had half the class actually show up. This will be helpful for those of you who were not able to attend the lecture.

Since these databases are free for all their usability is somewhat lacking when compared with the EBSCO databases from Leatherby Libraries.

In Directory of Open Access Journals for example

It is sometimes hard to navigate through the wide range of full text scholarly journals from many different countries. Even with the language option chosen many different articles are from other countries and it is sometimes difficult to navigate the wide array of articles. 

Here is a listing of the top Open Access Journals that you can use for this week 6.

Important to note that some articles may be abstracts and not the full and complete text. A citation or article may lead outside the database to another source that requires purchase. Email me if you have problems navigating to find an article related to your topic.

Also you may have a broad range of articles at your disposal numbering in the thousands or very few that are not relevant to your topic. These databases are not as fluid as Leatherby Libraries and the databases like Academic Search Premier.

Make sure you choose a database closer to your topic. For week 6 both DOAJ -Directory of Open Access Journals & OAJSE - Open Access Search Engine, are your best bet to find articles across multiple subjects.

OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES 

Open Access: This definition means researchers/students have means free, open, unrestricted access, to peer-reviewed and scholarly journals.

Core
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. As of today, CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.


(DOAJ) - Directory of Open Access Journals 
Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

F1000Research
Open access journal in biology and medicine.

OAJSE
Open Access Journals Search Engine.



PubMed
PubMed is the publicly accessible version of MEDLINE developed by the National Library of Medicine. It contains citations from over 3,900 international biomedical journals. Journal coverage is provided from 1966 through the present. In most cases, an abstract is included with the citation.