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Literature Review
Assignment overview
You will complete a 600-1000 words literature review in which you discuss four of the most relevant sources in your research. You will complete an MLA-formatted works cited page.
Assignment Preparation and Process
you will summarize the prominent “conversations” about your research topic and analyze how these ideas inform your argument, but it differs in sophistication. The key here is to look for connections between your sources and write about them in conjunction with one another. Think about the salient points of the authors. How are the authors’ points similar to one another? On what do they differ?
remember:
a. A lit review requires a synthesis of different subtopics to come to a greater
understanding of a larger issue. Like a jigsaw puzzle, the pieces (main points of the argument) must be put together to reveal the whole.
b. Use the knowledge you have gained from class to summarize, paraphrase, and directly quote where appropriate. Use attributive tags to introduce your sources and indicate all summarized, paraphrased, and quoted material.
c. Keep your own voice out of the literature review. In most genres of writing, your voice should come across to the reader. The literature review, however, is about the opinions of others—not your opinion.
1. To get started, first choose four of the most relevant sources in your research thus far( the sources you will use are in the attachment matrix). As you are researching, look into the bibliographies of the articles you have found. Who seems to be a prominent author/researcher associated with your topic? To whom do other authors and researchers often refer to in their own studies? What sources were particularly helpful to further your working thesis? What sources might be in disagreement with your working thesis?
2. Introduction: Include your working thesis statement. Remember, this is a working thesis and may change as you continue your research.
3. Establish main points. For instance, if you’re researching the effectiveness of viral videos, you could have three main points: 1. Viral videos are effective when the ad is not the focus of the
video, 2. When the video becomes viral naturally, and 3. When the ad embedded in the video relates to the target audience
4. use the synthesis matrix (see attachment).
5. Body: Use the information gathered in the matrix to organize your lit review Also keep the following questions in mind as you write your literature review in paragraph form.
What seem to be the gaps or unanswered questions in his research and/or conclusions? In other words, what does he not address or seem to dismiss or ignore that you think is relevant?
How does this particular source fit into what has already been said? What is its relationship to the other sources? For example, does it build on the work of another author? Does it answer a question raised at the end of another source?
As you read the sources, what seem to be the overall patterns that emerge? For example, what seems to be common knowledge among the authors?
Do the authors address different perspectives on the same question?
Do they come to similar conclusions?
In other words, what kind of picture can you get about the authors’ conversation?
6. Conclusion: You may conclude with a short summary, though this is not necessary.
Formatting your literature review
You should use MLA documentation style to cite your research sources in your literature review. Refer to Jeff Howard’s essay on MLA guidelines and the various online sources for information about this documentation style. The OWL at Purdue is a good one (owl.english.purdue.edu).
I will use the following criteria to grade your lit review:
? You have chosen four relevant sources
? You have used the synthesis matrix
? You include a thesis statement as introduction
? You discuss the sources in conjunction with each other. You are not merely summarizing sources as separate entities.
? You include a works cited page in MLA format
? You use proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling
? Your review is organized appropriately
again, use the attachment matrix and find the research question and the sources in it and use them in the essay, don’t use any other unnecessary sources.
My research question: what was the point of view in the eyes of ancient communities in the past to women body compare to now? How does media now view women’s bodies and sexualize it to sell products?
Source 1 Source 2 Source 3 Source 4 Source 5 My Thoughts
Main Idea 1
(Ancient Rome and communities)
Winter, B. (2003). Roman wives, Roman widows : the appearance of new women and the Pauline communities. Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. The source explain about the sexuality issues in the ancient communities. Has the main focus on roman wives It explains the restrictions of women body exposures present for these individuals It explains the importance of the roman laws to prevent sexual immorality It explains the reasons behind women body restrictions in the ancient times During the early days, the women’s body was regarded with high respect. The communities believed that it should not be exposed for all people to see. Currently however, women expose their bodies without any form of restrictions
Main Idea 2
(Compare between past and present.)
Classen, A. (2008). Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the early modern times: new approaches to a fundamental cultural-historical and literary-anthropological theme. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter. The source provides a clear explanation of the past women body exposures. It hen address he present ways through which the women body is exposed The source also focus on the media and how it exposes women for gains through adverts It then provides a clear comparison between currently and the ancient times In the past, women had been tied to many restrictions regarding their bodies and its exposure. Currently, those restrictions have been abolished, and thus their bodies are publicized by both themselves and others.
Main Idea 3
(Effects)
Worell, J. (2001). Encyclopedia of women and gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender. San Diego, Calif: Academic Press. The source explain all aspects regarding women and sexuality It provides a clear explanation of both the ancient and the current women. It has its main aspects and focuses on the women issues that do not change despite the change in time. It, however, address the changes that have taken place regarding dressing from women and sexuality. The effects of the exposure of the woman body in the society have increased sexual immorality.Main Idea 4
(Solution)
Reid, C. (2004). Power over the body, equality in the family: rights and domestic relations in medieval canon law. Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans. The source provides a clear description of the current exposures to the women body. It compares these exposures to the ancient time when restrictions on women dressing were upheld. It then explains the importance of women dressing It concludes with a list of solutions to this issue The solution to this issue is having restrictions regarding body exposure being established.
Main Idea 5
(Opinion and thoughts)
Perse, E. (2016). Media Effects and Society. City: Taylor and Francis. The source focus on the media and the society opinions to the issue. It explains that the media defends these social aspects since it benefits from them A group of people in the society are against the aspects of women body exposure The source provides many opinions of different individuals in different occupations and ranks in the society regarding this issue The body of a woman is owned by the woman, and thus she should be allowed to do what she likes. The main restriction, however, should be established when the actions affect others
