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Order Description

Literature Review 1500 words

Task Description:

Practitioners in health related fields are required to be familiar with current literature in their chosen field of practice to ensure service delivery is based on the best available evidence. At times, this will involve searching for literature and compiling this in the form of a literature review. In order to develop your skills in conducting a review, this assessment requires you to write a literature review by:

•    Choosing a specific topic area of relevance to your field of study/practice
•    Establishing the importance of this research topic to the field
•    Conducting a search for relevant scholarly literature published on this topic within the past 5 – 10 years (or earlier if they are seminal works)
•    Critically analysing the literature and writing a review which synthesises the major themes in the literature
•    Identifying areas of controversy and gaps in literature and formulating questions that need further research

You should aim to focus on at least 15 scholarly sources of literature and ensure your review is written in a clear and scholarly manner, including spelling, grammar, structure, tone, and accurate referencing in accordance with the latest APA guidelines (APA 6th).  The following sections are suggested to assist you to structure your review:

•    A brief discussion about your topic, a rationale for its choice and how the selected literature is relevant to it (so for example, you may provide a rationale for including or excluding overseas literature; or you might give a rationale for narrowing your topic to a particular intervention, such as group work or counseling).
•    Scope and method of literature search
•    Results of your review of the literature – a summary of what is and is not known ie. identification of the themes in the literature
•    Areas of controversy or debate in the literature
•    Areas that are not addressed in the literature and therefore need further research
Criteria & Marking:
The literature review will be marked out of 100 points against the following criteria
•    Demonstrated ability to define and provide a rationale for a relevant topic (25 marks)
•    Location of a range of relevant literature (25 marks)
•    Capacity for critical review and analysis of the literature, which highlights the relevance of the selected to literature to practice (25 marks)
•    Academic standards of writing and referencing (25 marks)
•     (note, though the marks awarded are different to what was listed in the Course Profile, the weighting of each criteria has not changed. They are still worth 25 percent each.)

Frequently Asked Questions – Literature Review

Which database should I use?

Read the subject guide for your discipline. If there isn’t a subject guide for your specific discipline, stick to the Health databases. Are all databases the same? If I search NARIC do I use the same methods as Cinahl? Each database is slightly different but all databases contain tutorials on how to use them. Watch the Cinahl Tutorial to get started in Cinahl. Read the NARIC tutorial to get the most out of the NARIC database. There are many similarities across databases. Once you’ve mastered one or two databases it will be much easier to use the others.

Do we have to use the critical appraisal tools for every article that we read?

No, you don’t. The purpose of a critical appraisal tool (described in topic 3) is to get a sense of what you are looking for and how to critique it. The more articles you read, the easier it will become without having to refer to the tools. Use them until you are comfortable with the process then you won’t have to go back to them.

Is this template correct for the literature review? Table of Contents, Abstract, Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion

A suggested format is in the course profile. Normally in a literature review, Methodology is called Search Methods. It is recommended you use a format similar to other published literature reviews. in

Can we use literature other than journal articles?

It is okay to use reports and book chapters, but these items are not considered as rigorous as journal articles because they haven’t gone through a peer review process. Therefore, it is much better to use scholarly and peer reviewed journal articles online. Does the total word count include references? The word count is 1500 words. If you go above 1650 words or below 1350 words you will be penalised. The word count includes in-text references, but not the reference list or appendices. Please note, the appendices will only be skim-read.