This assignment gives you experience writing an introduction with a literature r

This assignment gives you experience writing an introduction with a literature review. Literature reviews are also commonly used in other areas of academic and technical writing and required in proposals to fund research.
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Literature Reviews summarize and synthesize material related to a project. The purpose is to provide context for your project and to demonstrate how it fits into an ongoing conversation in the field.
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Task
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Use Google Scholar and UO Library Databases to find and skim summaries and abstract information from 5-7 sources. You may need to look at more to find the 5 you will use for the Literature Review.
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Identify 5 sources that have something to say about your research area.
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Draft an Introduction with a Literature Review following the Criteria for Success (below).
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Formatting / Presentation
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Literature Reviews are presented in paragraph form.
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Double-space your document, 12pt font
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Choose a standard documentation style, such as APA or MLA.
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Include a Works Cited or References
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Criteria for Success
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Your paper should include the following to be complete:
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Title
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Include a title that addresses your topic well.
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Overview
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2-3 sentence explanation of your project
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Forecast of key topics or texts that will appear in the review
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2-3 sentence description of how you found and analyzed your 5 sources
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Introduction
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Show that the general research area is important, central, interesting, problematic, or relevant in some way. (1-2 sentences)
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Provide background information directly related to the topic with a literature review (2-3 pages)
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Establish a niche by indicating a gap in the previous research, raising a question about it, or extending previous knowledge in some way (usually 1-2 sentences)
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State your research statement (or hypotheses) (The purpose of this paper is to…)
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Include a Works Cited or References page with 5 sources.
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Include
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Synthesis of key arguments from multiple sources on each topic you addrss
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Interpretation/analysis of the sources
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Transition words that indicate the relationship between sources (see Purdue OWL Links to an external site. example)