Description
Checklist
Find at least 4 peer-reviewed, research articles
Read the articles and complete the literature review matrix for each.
Articles are within 10 years of their publication date (e.g. no earlier than 2014)
Make sure you are selecting different articles than your group-mates
You will submit this independently
Overview:
For this assignment, you’ll be creating a literature review matrix.. It’s basically a chart to fill out, with one line per article.. This will be helpful, as you head into your group work and research proposal creation, as you’ll have a pretty good grounding in the research already. For each article you’ll collect information for each column. In short, make sure you’re not just summarizing the main points but are also talking about how they did the research.
I’ve given you the template I want you to use, but in the examples you’ll see some variation in the columns. Again, for this assignment, use the ones I’ve given you.
Where students typically lose points:
Providing a vague summary of the article (remember- there’s few things worse than “good, bad & interesting”)
Leaving sections blank
Selecting non-scholarly, non-research resources (i.e., newspaper articles or websites or articles that are not based on research)
Not deleting my example row.
Including less than 4 articles
Resources to Get you Started:
Literature_Review_Matrix_TemplateActions (you just edit this and upload your completed version in this format).
https://guides.library.vcu.edu/health-sciences-lit-review/organizeLinks to an external site.
https://case.fiu.edu/writingcenter/online-resources/_assets/synthesis-matrix-2.pdfLinks to an external site.
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/assignments/literaturereview/matrixLinks to an external site.
