Assessment item 3 - Critical literature review

Assessment Description:

This assessment requires you to synthesize information from relevant sources (scholarly articles) and present it in a coherent and organized fashion while providing the reader with an overview of what experts have found about the topic under investigation. Your review should evaluate available knowledge on a particular topic and identify areas of strength and weakness. You should be able to provide a description, summary, and critical evaluation of each work. The process should enable you to identify and formulate inquiry questions that need to be answered through future research studies. The literature review itself, however, does not present new primary scholarship.

The purpose of the current assessment is to provide you with an opportunity to: 

• explore available literature from peer-reviewed papers addressing a particular topic of interest (minimum 5 papers); 
• complete a literature search through locating and retrieving existing publications relevant to the topic of interest;  
• analyze the available knowledge while identifying important results and findings; 
• synthesize the available information while articulating connections, common themes, areas of disagreement, and available gaps; and 
• articulate a specific and significant research question based on the reviewed research studies.