Sheri Florizone's List: OCP Literature Review

• tips below provide more detailed advice on how to compose a literature review  and how to find important literature in the age of information  overload. 

• A literature review identifies and analyzes what others have done so as  not to reinvent the wheel. To do this you:

   
   
  • Locate what others have done (and  somewhere you need to say how you located them).  
  • Figure out what is significant about that in terms  or both the substance of the work and the  methods they used.  
  • Categorize or find patterns in the literature.  
  • Show where your study or project fits: perhaps  filling in a gap in the literature, replicating a study in a new context, or  using this earlier work to develop lessons for practice.

• These sources of authority can be woven into the review:

   
   
  •  “A survey of 312 elementary school children in Athens, Georgia,  found….”  
  • “A report by the Environmental Protection Agency summarizing a workshop that  collected the experiences of its field agents in implementing water quality  legislation…”  
  • “Reflecting on her 20 years as planning director in the city of Springfield,  Illinois,…”  
  • “A position paper by Good Growth America, an organization of home builders  ….”

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