What is a literature review?
Literature Review Assignment Instructions
Instructions
You will research and write a literature review on a topic relevant to your course. You will have approximately 7 modules to research and write the paper. At the beginning of Module 2: Week 2, your instructor will provide a list of approved topics for this assignment. (MY APPROVED TOPIC IS: SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION)
Be sure to check the Announcement page and your email for the approved topics. Simply select a topic, and then begin working on the project. Do not “recycle” any work from any previous courses you have taken. Your research paper will be a comprehensive thematic review of the scholarly literature related to your topic.
What is a literature review?
“A literature review discusses published information in a particular subject area, and sometimes information in a particular subject area within a certain period.
A literature review can be just a simple summary of the sources, but it usually has an organizational pattern and combines both summary and synthesis. A summary is a recap of the important information of the source, but a synthesis is a re-organization, or a reshuffling, of that information. It might give a new interpretation of old material or combine new with old interpretations. Or it might trace the intellectual progression of the field, including major debates. And depending on the situation, the literature review may evaluate the sources and advise the reader on the most pertinent or relevant.”[i]