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This is the heart of your research paper. This section will require you to tie together the information from your sources you will eventually use to answer your research questions. Here is what you need to bear in mind as you write this:
You should be synthesizing this information, meaning you will not just be summarizing one article at a time. Instead, you will find the most common points raised about your topic in the research (that are relevant to answering your questions) and present what previous researchers have said about them; organize the information by themes, not articles/authors, so we can see how the conversation on your issue unfolds. If you did your grid of common points assignment well, you should already have a jump start on this as this is exactly what you were doing in that assignment.
I should not see any paragraphs beginning with quotations or telling me what one article or study said; have a topic sentence that indicates what point is being explored by the researchers and then tell me what the body of research has to say on that point in your supporting details.
Do not offer anecdotal information (i.e. one person’s story or just one incident of something having happened) or your opinion. This should be objective, and the information you provide should show this applies to more than one person or event.
Do not worry about answering your research questions at this point. By that, I mean you do not have to tell us how your information answers your research questions yet as you will do this in the next portion of your paper. For now, just provide us the information you have.
Because this section is to be based almost exclusively on your research, the emphasis will be on the following: correctly, accurately, and precisely quoting (without overdoing it); paraphrasing (often preferred to quoting); summarizing; and integrating the information you find. (Requirements: 4-5 FULL pages, 5 sources minimum).
The link below is a reminder of how to write this section. Again, p. 4 shows you a good example of what two paragraphs from this portion of your essay would look like and how they were developed from the grid of common points. Yours will, of course, be double-spaced.
Literature_Review_and_Synthesis.pdf
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