Literature Review Format should include

Literature Review Format should include

This paper focuses on Literature Review Section. Discuss what is known about this topic, this could be outlined in different ways including:

Literature Review Section-Discuss what is known about this topic

Literature Review Format should include

The History of your Topic
Discuss what is known about this topic, this could be outline d in different ways including:

Firstly, Theme 1

Secondly, Theme 2

Thirdly Theme 3

Fourthly, Theme 4

Strengths and Weaknesses of the arguments presented and suggestions
Theoretical Construct that applies to your research question
A “lead in” that introduces your study

The following will be consider ed when evaluating your paper:
Firstly, Did you understand the important criminological theories, concepts, and issues?
Secondly, Does the author adequately and effectively use evidence to support your argument?
Thirdly,  How creative is the author? (introduces new ideas, integrates material in an innovative way?)
Fourthly, Is the paper in regarding to clarity, grammar, proper citation and spelling?

Lastly, Is the paper well organize d?

Notes:

Literature Review:
In writing the literature review, your purpose is to convey to your reader what knowledge and ideas have been established on a topic, and what their strengths and weaknesses are. As a piece of writing, the literature review must be defined by a guiding concept (e.g., your research objective, the problem or issue you are discussing, or your argumentative thesis). It is not just a descriptive list of the material available, or a set of summaries

Besides enlarging your knowledge about the topic, writing a literature review lets you gain and demonstrate skills in two areas
1.    information seeking: the ability to scan the literature efficiently, using manual or computerized methods, to identify a set of useful articles and books
2.    critical appraisal: the ability to apply principles of analysis to identify unbiased and valid studies.
A literature review must do these things
1.    be organized around and related directly to the thesis or research question you are developing
2.    synthesize results into a summary of what is
3.    identify areas of controversy in the literature
4.    formulate questions that need further research