February 24th 2010

SHARING THOUGHTS ABOUT AANOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENTS

Chapter 4 and 5 of Tipping Point Talking about Literature Reviews Assignments

What challenges did you face in your assignment?

What did you gain from your assignment?

Were the sources you found valuable for your research?

What kind of sources does the writer of this bibliography use?

Do you agree with the writer’s assessment of the reliability of the sources in this bibliography?

Which one of these references seem questionable to you and why?

Synthesis: a relationship between your sources. It’s more than a summary. It can also include your own evaluation of the source.

You draw on the ideas of the authors. You bring together a body of information from various sources.

Before you can write an effective synthesis. You must know the relationships among sources and how they fit into the field

Literature review is an account of what has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and researchers.

This is a paper to demonstrate your familiarity with the research topic. It is a summary of what the scientific literature says about your specific topic or question.

A literature review typically contains the following sections:

Find at least six sources related to your research projects.

Read the articles (remember to do active reading) Take notes in the margins, write summaries, important quotes etc.

Read the easier articles first (see the abstract to see if this article is related to your topic.

The articles must be from professional journals.

See sample literature reviews in the articles.

http://web.pdx.edu/~dbls/HowtoWriteLiteratureReview.htm

http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/assets/images/qmanual/6-1.jpg

Read Chapter 6 Read Writing at the University Chapter 8 Tipping Point: Blog about two of the

discussion questions from your handout. Continue with finding valuable/relevant

articles related to your topics.