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Assignment: Public Health
You will find a collection of relevant peer-reviewed research articles on your topic area to address your research question. You will work to write a 7 to 10 pages synthesis of the general theme(s) and findings from these selected publications as they relate back to your research topic. This review paper will be the backbone for your research proposal.
To Consider When Writing Your Literature Review:
A. Does your literature review begin by identifying and outlining a specific problem or issue?
a. Tell the reader what you will be talking about to grab their attention early
b. Get to the point quickly
B. Have you established the importance of this issue/problem?
a. Why should we care?
b. How can you relate this in some way back to public health? (Assume your reader is a community practitioner but they still need to see how this fits in the overall scheme of public health. Ask your instructor if you need help with this.)
C. Is your specific research topic/question and the purpose of the literature review revealed to the reader in the introductory section(s)?
a. Often a specific research question or hypothesis for a study is stated in the last paragraph of the introduction section. That way the next sections build from that set up.
D. Does your summary have a good flow from one topic area to another using headings and subheadings?
a. You do not want to just go down the line of citations and summarize each one in order
b. Read them all and then pull out the themes represented by the group of articles, the overarching conclusions and recommendations, any areas where they differ, and any gaps you continue to see in the way the research has been conducted or even in populations or ideas they have left out of the analyses
c. Use transition terms to get from one paragraph or one topic/subtopic to another but don't use the same ones over again (g. However, In particular, Additionally, etc. Search for more or check out this site from Michigan State University.
E. If you are using key terms that are not common, have you explained what they mean to your reader? A short definition or explanation once can be helpful.
F. Are you properly citing any "fact" that you are using in the document? Are you being clear with identifying facts from opinions?