This section should contain a systematic and well organized review of the literature that is directly related to your research problem. A good review of the literature should tie your research problem to existing theories, previous research, and current issues in the field of interest. It is not an annotated bibliography but a summary of a body of knowledge that is pertinent to your specific research question. You must identify, read, and integrate at least ten publications (books or journal articles) from academic sources (newspapers or magazines are not recognized as academic sources) into your proposal. Pay careful attention to the literature review sections in the journal articles you are reading for the style of an academic literature review. Your articles, since they are on the same topic, should inform each other in a complimentary way. Thus, weaving together multiple journal articles is necessary for a successful literature review. Keep in mind that there is most likely a lot of literature to draw from, and in such a small project, I do not expect you to cover all of it. I would recommend that you find ten solid journal articles and base your literature review around those.
you would need 5 citied sources.
