How do you create a bridge between the past work and your own research project? How do you link those past work to the research project you have in mind?

Assignment Question

1. Literacy Review

For your literature review assignment, you are required to find at least 3 academic sources. These academic sources can include articles published in academic journals, books, book chapters, research reports etc. In addition, you can use non-academic sources as well, which might include a newspaper article, documentary, movie, an artistic piece etc. Remember that 3 academic sources are required, and non-academic sources are optional, not required. You can use online library data bases to find academic sources such as JStor, Ebscohost, Google Scholar etc.

Remember that Wikipedia is not an academic source. *** – After you find your sources, you are required to read them first. – Then, you will start writing your literature review by first summarizing the sources (their findings, arguments, research model etc). However,  remember that literature review is not simply a summary, but it is a critical reading of your sources.

That is, your literature review has to answer these questions below: – What have others said about this topic? – What research has been done previously? – What theories address it and what do they say? – Are past findings consistent or do they contradict each other? – Are there any flaws in the body of existing literature that your research can remedy?

One of the most important things about the literature review is that it is not a simple summary of the past work. After you present the findings of previous research conducted on the issue, for the next step, you are expected to answer these questions: – How do you create a bridge between the past work and your own research project? How do you link those past work to the research project you have in mind? – What are your critical reflections on this literature review? You are supposed to create a critical argument on what you have read. – What is it that you are going to study uniquely? Compared to the past work, is yours a replication or a new approach, or on an attack on the limitations of previous studies, or what? It is here that you must explain clearly why it is important to do further research on this problem. – What is your theoretical standpoint?

2. Final Paper

Your final paper is supposed to have the following sections: A) Title page: The title page should contain brief but important information including title of the research study, your name, course number, professor, and date of final paper. B) Introduction: Briefly present your answers to the following questions: What is this study about (research topic)? Why is this study important? What are the objectives of this study? Since you will be elaborating on these questions more on the following sections of the paper, in this introduction, you can present your answers just briefly (perhaps a paragraph or so). C) Literature Review: You have already completed this assignment. Make sure you make the revisions and it is in its final shape. D) Methodological Design: You have already completed this assignment, too. Make sure you make the revisions and it is in its final shape. E) Brief conclusion (a paragraph or so), to bring your paper to an end