For this assignment, you will write a literature review (see the Literature Review by SJSU WC in the module). Similar to the proposal, the literature review asks you to focus on the current research. This is where Wikipedia is no longer valid. While good for a general overview, you now need to get specific, yet also cast a wide net. Now that you have the overview of the topic and issues from the research proposal, select one particular issue that appeals to you and that you will be able to take to the stakeholder audience to argue your point.
The literature review, however, is not your research paper in miniature. Instead, you need to cast a wide net over the topic and issue you’ve selected. You’re not looking to understand both sides, you’re looking to understand all the sides of this issue. That is what your literature review must discuss.
Your job is to talk about the research. Mention the sources, what they’re talking about, and give insight into how this will illuminate your topic and issue. Often, sources will not agree with one another. They’re not supposed to. You need a complete picture of the issues so you will know how to counter potential weaknesses in your own argument.
By the end of the literature review, you should be very familiar with each of the sources you’ve research and know how they fit into the big picture of your topic and chosen issue.
Literature reviews are a complete essay organized by how the sources relate to one another. Do not simply have a paragraph where you talk about each source. That’s called an annotated bibliography.
Assignment Requirements:
Literature must be from 1000-1750 words not counting Works Cited. Max grade of C for shorter reviews
You are required to have 10 sources. Assignments without at least 7 sources will not receive higher than a C.
The focus of the literature review is about the research, not about how you feel or think about it. Please write in 3rd1 grade penalty for 1st (I, my, we, our, us, etc.) or 2nd (you, your).
One grade penalty for using drop quotes. Quotations are not necessary, but are allowed. Only quote the information you absolutely need.
Two grade penalty for using a block quote. Block quotes do not easily connect to other sources and defeat the purpose of a literature review.
One grade penalty for the use of unnecessary signal phrases.
Do not use the name of article titles in signal phrases (you’re wasting words). Do not use generic signal phrases: the article states, the author says, the essay says, or other variations on needless language.
Jump in and use the authors’ names to talk directly about the ideas they present.
Each missing citation penalized 1 letter grade.
(minimum of 10 quality sources, 2 of which must be peer-reviewed). Automatic 0 for no citations.
You are free to use other types of sources, even those not reviewed, if you can substantiate the information from other sources (You should connect these sources in your critical view).
I will randomly check source URLs. Make sure your URLs are correct and lead to the source. Invalid URLs will be penalized.
One grade penalty for each missing type and medium at the end of works cited entries.
Half grade penalty for each incorrect type identifications. You must have made a good-faith effort to correctly identify the source type according to the handouts in class and your own research into identifying and evaluating sources.
For the literature review, you must use properly reviewed and complete sources. We are no longer using Wikipedia. You need better quality of information than it provides (however, you can follow-up on the references in Wikipedia to find quality sources). Also, you may not use any dictionaries, encyclopedias, wikis, answer websites (howstuffworks, about.com, etc.), Opposing Viewpoints, or procon.org. Quality books, journals, magazines, and newspapers should constitute most of your research. You may reference fiction (short stories, novels, films, television episodes) for hypothetical models only.
Important: You are allowed to organize your literature review how it best makes sense to you, but as with our critical summary, beware the chronological organization. If the chronology of the research is important, then that is best, but most of the time for these topics you’re best taking a thematic organization (see the handouts).
This is about solar panels here linked is the past essay about solar panels for reference
please do the MLA citations like “Stevens, Christy R., “Citation Generators, OWL, and the Persistence of Error-Ridden References: An Assessment
for Learning Approach to Citation Errors,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 42, no. 6, Nov. 2016, pp.
712–18, ScienceDirect, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2016.07.003, Academic, web.” with the “Academic. web” being bold