Georgia Christian University Type 1 Diabetes SLP Literature Review

Assignment Directions:

For this assignment, you are asked to complete a short literature review on the public health topic and target population that was assigned to you (type one diabetes for people ages 20-30) You are asked to locate at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles on your topic and write a 1-2 pages literature review on the articles you’ve selected. The paper should be typed, using 11-12 point font, 1” margins, and 1.5 line spacing. The paper should be formatted per APA 7^th Edition guidelines (Title page, in-text citations, and reference list).

A target population (who is most affected, at risk, etc.),

What attempts have been made to address the topic/issue/problem,

What is needed and/or what could be done to help eliminate and eradicate the problem

You will need to include:

Title Page

Literature review

oIntroduction

oContext of literature

oConclusion

Reference list

You will not need:

Running header

Page numbers

Steps to complete your literature review:

1.Formulate an inquiry question that specifically describes what would like to know about your Public Health topic.

2.Go to the library (in person or via MyUNG) to search for and locate journals that include your topic’s information.

3.Find articles, read the abstracts and skim the articles to determine if they correspond well to your topic AND inquiry question.

4.Select at least 5 journal articles (you do this so that you can eliminate those that are not relevant – you will need at least 3 for your review).

5.Read your articles and begin to sort and classify them according to their findings.

6.Organize your articles by sorting and classifying their findings in a meaningful way, always considering your original topic and inquiry question.

7.Write an outline for your literature review.

8.Write your review.

9.Revise your review.

A literature review is a survey of scholarly sources on a specific topic. Thus, writing a literature review involves finding relevant publications (such as books and journal articles), critically analyzing them, and explaining what you found. There are five key steps:

1. Search for relevant literature
2. Evaluate sources
3. Identify themes, debates and gaps
4. Outline the structure
5. Write your literature review

A good literature review doesn’t just summarize sources – it analyzes, synthesizes, and critically evaluates to give a clear picture of the state of knowledge on the subject.

You will develop a central question to direct your search. Unlike a thesis/dissertation research question, this question has to be answerable without collecting and/or analyzing data. You should be able to answer it based only on a review of existing publications.

The literature review should be structured as follows:

Introduction

You will give some background on the topic and its importance, discuss the scope of the literature you will review (for example, the time period of your sources), and state your objective. What new insight will you draw from the literature?

Body

As you write, you can follow these tips:

Summarize and synthesize: give an overview of the main points of each source and combine them into a coherent whole

Analyze and interpret: don’t just paraphrase other researchers—add your own interpretations where possible, discussing the significance of findings in relation to the literature as a whole

§Copy and pasting portions of the articles is not acceptable

§Using only direct quotes or paraphrasing without interpretation will not be viewed as sufficient

Write in well-structured paragraphs: use transition words and topic sentences to draw connections, comparisons and contrasts

Conclusion

You can discuss the overall implications of the literature