Unit+6+-+Action+Research+-+Literature+Review


 * __Unit 6 - Action Research Literature Review__ **

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** Please read the overview below as well as the materials linked at the bottom of the page. After doing so, please construct your literature review and send it to Dr. Strawbridge at nstrawbridge@walton.k12.ga.us ** ** as a .doc or a .docx document. Note that your literature reviews are due Monday, October 24th, by 5:00 p.m. **=====


 * A Note about Emailing Assignments:**

= Reviewing the Literature in Preparation for Action Research =
 * PLEASE EMAIL ALL ASSIGNMENTS TO**
 * DR. STRAWBRIDGE AT nstrawbridge@walton.k12.ga.us ** **USING THE FOLLOWING FORMAT:**
 * Subject Line: Lastname EPEL 7680B Literature ReviewAssignment**
 * Attachment: Please attach your assignments as a .doc or .docx document. Please label all assignments as follows:**
 * Lastname_FirstInitial_Literature Review.**

A literature review is a creative way of organizing what has been written about a topic by scholars and researchers. You will find literature reviews at the beginning of many essays, research reports, or theses. In writing the literature review, your purpose is to convey to your reader what you have learned through a careful reading of a set of articles related to your research question. In creating a literature review, you acquire and demonstrate your evolving expertise in an area. You will be demonstrating: A strong literature review has the following properties:
 * Ability to find significant articles, valid studies, or seminal books that are related to your topic.(Research skills—notice that //research// is different than //search// because it is more than searching for information.)
 * Analytic ability to synthesize and summarize different views on a topic or issue. (This is the searching. Over and over=researching.)
 * 1) It is organized around issues, themes, factors, or variables that are related directly to your thesis or research question;
 * 2) It provides a good synthesis of what is, and is not, known;
 * 3) It indicates the theoretical framework with which you are working;
 * 4) It identifies areas of controversy and debate, or limitations in the literature sharing different perspectives;
 * 5) It places the formation of research questions in their historical context;
 * 6) It identifies the list of the authors that are engaged in similar work.

__//**Literature Review Information**//__

The review of the related scholarly and research literature should include the following information and be presented in APA style with subheadings. Rather than simply reporting the findings of the literature, you should look for underlying themes throughout your readings and weave them together in order to create a review that is yours alone. In other words, when writing your paper, you should synthesize what you have read rather than presenting it as an annotated listing.

An analysis of research on the problem or similar types of programs

A minimum of 10 typed pages and fifteen scholarly sources

__**Links:**__

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature_review.html http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/667/01/ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ http://www.uwsp.edu/PSYCH/apa4b.htm http://www.elps.vt.edu/janosik/apastyle.pdf http://www.d.umn.edu/~hrallis/guides/researching/litreview.html http://cadres.pepperdine.edu/ar/c9/burker/ar-lit-review-outline.html http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of-writing/literature-review