Directions
This week, you are going to work on the Literature Review of your research paper. You will annotate 2/3 articles and you have to give in-text citations as a reference to that source. You will be writing a literature review of 5/6 sources in total in literature review part. The half portion should be submitted this week and half in the following week.
Requirements:
You will need to organize the literature review with the following elements:
- An effective introduction of Literature review by giving information about the number of sources that researcher is going to consider for his/her paper. Talk about it briefly and write important points from each source with a meaningful sub-heading
- Make sure that you have submitted your literature review about 2/3 sources
- Write in THIRD PERSON OBJECTIVE, no first or second person, which means to “I”, “we”, ‘you”, “us”, etc. within your essay.
- Every paragraph should organized with clear topic sentence and closing sentence
- Use Transitions in the beginning of paragraphs and within paragraphs to show cohesion
- Specific supporting evidence from your selected sources
- 2/3 pages (not including the Works Cited page)
- You can give sub-headings for each article’s annotation
- Paragraphs organized logically which should make sense to the reader
- Effective use of transitional words and phrases to connect paragraphs and sentences
- An effective topic sentence and concluding sentence to each paragraph
- Consistently clear, complete sentences with virtually no sentence-level errors that distract the reader or distort the essay’s meaning. A reader can easily understand the writer’s ideas.
- A unique title that predicts the topic and main point of your text
- MLA format for doc., quotations, and Works Cited page (double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, 1 inch margins)
- Make sure you have reviewed the in-text citations handout and use in-text citations properly
- The language in the research paper should be formal and academically accepted.
- Be careful about the plagiarism as it shouldn’t be more than 5%.
