Literature Review Specific Guidelines and Rubric
Overview:
In class, we have discussed various topics on family, marriage, and relationships. For this assignment, you will complete a literature review assignment by critically drawing on a topic of your choice on family, marriage, and relationships. In this assignment, you will identify the topic you will focus on, engage with the empirical research on your topic by highlighting major findings and critiquing prior research, address the gap in research, and present ideas for future research. This assignment provides you experience to conceptualize and assess a topic of your choice through a family/marriage lens. There are several benefits: you will disseminate researching findings, enhance your knowledge on the recent scholarship on family and marriages and reflect on reflexibility in the research process.
Instructions:
You will develop a literature review by engaging with the recent scholarship on a topic of your choice on family, marriage, and relationships. You are required to run your topic with the instructor. The assignment should be in the following format: narrative format, 6-8 pages not including references, 12-point font, times new roman, double spaced, and include your name. Late assignments will result in points deducted. For each day your assignment is late, the score will be deducted 10%, so please make sure to submit assignments in a timely manner. You are expected to complete all of the components below in the order to get full credit on the assignment.
Introduction (_____/2points)
-What is the contemporary topic you are focusing on for this assignment?
-What is the significance of your topic (based on sociological literature)? *make sure you include in-text citations to show evidence/justify the significance of your topic*
-What is the research question?
-What do you want to know about your topic?
Literature Review (_____/5points)
-What does the existing literature suggest about your topic? (synthesize the major findings)
-Regarding methodology, which specific approaches have been employed? (Qualitative? Quantitative? If so, which specific type?; primary analysis or secondary analysis; cross sectional or longitudinal)
-What were the major findings? (Major themes reported? Which variables were significant?)
-What are the specific contributions? (empirical, theory, methods, policy – identify which one and explain why)
-What are some limitations of prior research? (critique prior research as it regards to theory, methods, sample, geographic area)
Future Research (_____/3points)
-What are some unanswered questions/gaps in research?
-Present at least 3 concrete ideas for future research.
Conclusion (_____/2points)
-Why is your topic important to study?
-What have you learned about your topic?
-How does your proposed research make contribution in prior research (empirical, theory, methods, policy – identify which one and explain why)
References (_____/3points)
-Properly cited in ASA style – No direct quotes, paper employs in-text citations
-Includes at least 10 peer reviewed empirical articles on your topic within the last 10 years.
Total points _____/15 points
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