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August 10th, 2017 
admin Task Two: Literature Review 10% Week 6
You are required to carry out secondary research in order to explore what is already being said about your chosen issue. You must research relevant Journals, Books, Internet Publications, HCT Library Databases etc. and select at least 10 sources including 3 journals that relate to your chosen industry related issue or challenge. For each of your chosen sources you should write a review of between 200 and 300 words for each article. However, you also need to identify key themes in the literature and organise your review around these themes.
The Literature Review should be written in HCT report format and fully referenced using APA format. You should also submit the document to Safe Assign on Black Board Learn.
See separate rubric
Task Two Guidelines
Writing a Literature Review
Your Literature Review section provides the readers with a background to your study. It will contain three basic elements: an introduction or background information section; the body of the review containing the discussion of sources organised as themes; and, finally, a conclusion and/or recommendations section to end the paper. Everything in the Literature Review is from the secondary research you conduct. All of the materials must be referenced as per APA guidelines.
Steps in order
- Order; Decide upon the order of the paragraphs; either chronologically, thematically, or methodologically. In most instances, the literature review is organized by the research objectives that have been set out in the introduction.
- Flow; Add introductory and concluding sentences to each paragraph review.
- Finishing; at the end, you need to write an introductory and concluding paragraph to the overall Literature Review.
- Write the concluding paragraph first discussing what you have drawn from reviewing literature.
- The introduction (written second) gives a quick idea of the topic of the literature review, such as the central theme and will include your Research Statement or subject.
Rubric
| EVIDENCE | ||
| INTRODUCTION
Background to the study and statement of the research question
10% |
The background to the project is fully described. All areas are full and descriptive and show evidence of extensive in depth additional research completed. The research question(s) is well-formulated and clearly achievable.
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| REVIEW OF RELEVANT SOURCES
At least 10 relevant sources including 3 Journals
20% |
The full ten relevant sources including 3 journal articles are reviewed it should be published between 2006 – 2016. Each review is minimum 200 words and has includes an introductory and concluding sentence. The content of each source is fully discussed including why the source was chosen and how relevant it is to your research. The Literature Review shows evidence of extensive in depth research.
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| THEMES AND ORGANISATION
Identification of key themes in the literature and organisation of the review around these themes 20% |
There are at least four key themes clearly identified in the literature and these themes are organised in a way that ensures a logical flow in the writing by linking the themes to the research question. | |
| EVIDENCE | A
10 – 8.5 |
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| CONCLUSION
Summary of all evidence from the literature reviews implications for the research stated. 20% |
Conclusion shows a full detailed summary of the findings from all sources reviewed and discusses the suitability and implications for the research question. | |
| STRUCTURE AND FORMAT
10% |
Literature Review is professionally formatted using the HCT guidelines with all of the requirements met;
· Cover Page · Introduction · Headings and sub-headings · Conclusion · References page |
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| ENGLISH LANGUAGE
10% |
Uses formal writing, logical flow and appropriate vocabulary. Up to five minor typos. | |
| APA STYLE REFERENCING AND SAFE ASSIGN
10% |
Fully accurate APA formatting used including in-text citations. Safe Assign not more than 10% (don’t copy try to rewrite the information’s you will be using) | |
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