I am currently studying Outdoor Recreation studies. I am required to write a lit

I am currently studying Outdoor Recreation studies. I am required to write a literature review on a research topic within my field. The topic I am choosing for my literature review is the need for more diversity within Outdoor Recreation. Why don’t BIPOC recreate outdoors as often as white populations? Why are more men working or participating in outdoor recreation compared to women? How can the Outdoor Recreation field become more inclusive to undermined populations? How can we encourage more females to participate in outdoor recreation? These are just some examples of questions I’m interested in learning about through research findings. My professor asked us to analyze current, credible literature directly related to the topic of our choice. Look for patterns in the literature, main ideas or findings, and gaps in the literature that identify a need for further study. Provide analysis and review of a minimum of 15-20 current, academic references focused on Outdoor Recreation and a narrowly focused topic (I choose diversity/inclusivity). Identify a problem, issue, or challenge of critical importance in your field. What gap in the literature have you identified that needs to be studied further? Learning more about the problem, issue, or challenge you identified should be a starting point for your research, to answer questions, make necessary changes or improvements. Include numerous in-text citations in each paragraph in the entire paper, drawing from more than one reference in each paragraph (synthesizing information from different references in every paragraph throughout the paper). When drawing ideas or information from another author, give credit by providing an in-text and full citation. Every reference cited within the text should also be cited at the end of the paper. Every reference listed at the end of the paper should be discussed and cited in the text of the paper. Acceptable references: Include a current date (the majority of references should be published within the past 10 years); contain the name of the author, editors, or organization; contain data, research, and reference citations; are available to you in full text; are two or more pages in length. Acceptable types of references: Peer-reviewed journal articles; trade or industry publication articles (designed for professionals); data, research, or articles from a .edu or .org web page with a current copyright/publication date; thesis; dissertation; academic books; or conference proceeding articles. Unacceptable references: Do not contain a current publication or copyright date; do not contain the names of authors, editors, or the organization; are not available to you in full text; are less than two pages in length; do not contain the depth of information necessary, such as research, data and reference citations. More than 10 years old. Unacceptable types of references: General information from a web page that is not academic in nature, newspapers, magazines (designed for the public), blogs, videos, YouTube, Wikipedia, dictionary, encyclopedia, book review, abstract. Format: 1. Double-space throughout the paper (including the References section), with no extra lines or spaces between paragraphs, sections, or citations. Use 1″ margins, indent the first sentence of each paragraph, paragraphs should be an average of 5-7 sentences in length. Use headings to add structure, organize your paper and improve flow for your readers. 2. Use APA format in-text and full citations. 3. The final version should contain a minimum of 1,500 words, including the introduction, body, and conclusion. Write in the third person (no I, we, they, or you). According to researchers (Wright, 2018) . . . Minimize the use of direct quotes. Avoid copying/pasting work from other sources (including text, charts, and graphs). 4. An APA format title page and running head are required. For the title page, use the format for a dissertation or thesis. An abstract and table of contents are not required. 6. Center the word References at the top of the last page of the paper. Use a hanging indent for the full citations. List the references in alphabetical order. Pay attention to capitalization, italics, format, and the type of information required for each type of reference. Refer to the APA Publication Manual (7th ed.) if you have questions about APA format. Important Points * When researching the literature, you want to make sure that there is no identical research on the problem or challenge that you specified in your paper. In other words, you want to make sure that you are contributing and NOT duplicating someone’s research work. You may expand on someone’s work by adding more variables/exploring additional variables in your research study. The key point here is that your research study has to be original. * You want to demonstrate from your literature review that other researchers have tackled issues related to your topic but have not touched on the specific challenge or problem you want to research or the additional variables you want to research. * Your literature review needs to focus on your study’s model and you need to take the opportunity to demonstrate that no one has touched on the key issues/variables you want to explore/research in your study.