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quick help: how to do a literature review?
This is why you don't procrastinate. I'm writing a paper and due to the holiday today the prof s unavailable and it's due tomorrow.
One of the requirements of this paper is that we have "a literature review that is incorporated into the body of the paper." This is exactly how it is phrased in the assignment outline, italics included. I have two problems with this.
1) Whenever I see a literature review in research, it's given it's own section. How do I incorporate a literature review into the discussion section itself while still maintaining the flow of the paper? Right now I'm not writing this paper any differently than I write any other paper, other than that I'm grouping arguments by author instead of topic. Is this sufficient?
2) We have already done an annotated bibliography on the same subject this paper is on, and we are encouraged to use the same research for both assignments. Isn't this redundant? I feel like copying and pasting what I wrote for that assignment into this one, but I'm pretty sure it won't be accepted.
I don't know. I know what a literature review is, I just don't understand how to effectively work it into the body of the paper, instead of it's own section. Whenever I make it "flow" properly, it just seems like any other discussion paper, pulling information from current research. Maybe I'm missing something?
Re: quick help: how to do a literature review?
Okay, here is an example of what I have:
Although Canadian culture has slowly become more accepting of homosexuality over the past 50 years (Makarenko, 2007), roughly half of Canadians still do not approve of gay and lesbian adoption (Adoption Council of Canada, 2003). Dissenters claim that when compared to peers raised by heterosexual parents, children of gay or lesbian parents are more frequently teased and bullied in school (Tasker & Patterson, 2007), are more likely to experience gender confusion (ibid) or to become gay themselves (Taub, 2007), and are more likely to become ?troubled young adults? (ibid, p. 3).
But are these claims true?
Research says no. In the article Research on Gay and Lesbian Parenting: Retrospect and Prospect, published in the Journal of GLBT Family Studies (2007), Fiona Tasker and Charlotte Patterson address the social impacts of being a child of gay and lesbian parents. Although they found that many of these children often fear ?coming out? to their friends at school, only rarely are these children bullied, teased, or ostracized from the school community. Tasker and Patterson admit that it is possible that many children decide to continue to hide their parents? sexual orientation from their peers; however, as these children do not appear to display difficulties in making friends more frequently than their peers raised by heterosexual parents, Tasker and Patterson conclude that a child?s social skills are not impaired by being raised by same-sex parents.
It is a short paper (10 pages) and I have lots of info to cover, so that's why it's so short. In my Annotated Bibliography I included more info about what their research overlooked, the validity and reliability of their research, etc, but I don't think I have room to DUPLICATE all that information here (the more I think about it, the more this requirement bugs me. I already wrote out this frigging information, why do it again?). Should I try to include that stuff AGAIN, and ruin the flow of the paper (from this paragraph I smoothly transitioned into the next, which features another piece of research and the conclusions drawn within)?
Does this help?
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of-writing/literature-review
I thought it was a pretty good summary of how to include it in a paper.