-7- Literature Review Outline

For the past several weeks, you have learned about the components of a literature review.You may find it helpful to have an outline for your paper. Here is one way to organize the information.

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   Introduction
   
   
   
   1. The introduction is used to establish the context of your review to the reader. To help set the context for your reader, you should do the following in this opening paragraph:
      
      
      1. Define the topic of your study and provide any background information that helps your reader to understand the topic.
      
      
      2. Explain your reason (perspective) for reviewing the literature on this topic.
      
      
      3. State your inquiry question for this review.
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   


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   Body
   
   
   
   1. This section of your paper begins with explaining how you have organized your literature reviewand describes findingsfrom articles that provide answers to your inquiry question. Before starting this section, be sure that you have sorted your articles into different themes based on the articles'findings (sometimes called results). After you sort your articles, it is important to give your sorted groups a descriptive name. The descriptive name may become your headings for each of the paragraphs that you write in the body of your review. The body of your literature review should include the following:
      
      
      1. Write an introduction paragraph for the body of your review. This paragraph tells the reader specific information on how many articles you reviewed and how you sorted the articles into common themes based on the findings (results).
      
      
      2. This will be a paragraph that describes the first theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you've selected.
      
      
      3. This will be a paragraph that describes the second theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you've selected.
      
      
      4. This will be a paragraph that describes the third theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you've selected.
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   


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   Summary
   
   
   
   1. This is the last paragraph of your literature review. In this paragraph, it is important to summarize the main findings from the articles that you reviewed and to point out the information that you found particularly important to know that answered the inquiry question that you established in the first paragraph of your review. Try to conclude your paper by connecting your inquiry question back to the context of the general topic of study.
   
   
   
   


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   References
   
   
   
   1. This is the last page of your review. It serves as a listing of all references that you mentioned in your paper. Please use APA style when completing this list.
   
   
   
   

Assignment

For this assignment, you will make an outline of your literature review. You may change the organization of this outline for your final paper, but this will give you some guidance as you write it. For each paragraph, notate the references you will use. For example

1. Introduction


2. Body
   
   
   1. Impact of Stress on the body
      
      
      1. (Johnson, 2020; Smith, 2019) - Long term impact on body
      
      
      2. (Anderson, 2017; Smith, 2019) - Short term impact on body
      
      
      
      
   
   
   2. Mental health
      
      
      1. (Keene, 2016; Maines, 2018) - Effects on behavior
      
      
      
      
   
   
   3. Prevention
      
      
      1. (Johnson, 2020; Keene, 2016; Maines) - Exercise
      
      
      2. (Anderson 2017; Smith, 2019) - Meditation
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   


3. Summary


4. References
   
   
   1. Here you will list your references in APA format and in alphabetical order.