Assignment details:
concentrates more on the understanding of annotated bibliography and the design and building up of a literature review for your project.
Answer the following questions below:
1. Describe in detail what is meant by an annotated bibliography. In your explanation include the following:
(a) How is an annotated bibliography of a group of articles organized?
(b) What sort of articles would you include in an annotated bibliography?
(c) What are the purposes of an annotated bibliography?
2. In relation to an annotation of an article or reference, explain:
(a) What is meant by a critical review of an article or reference? Give examples.
(b) In what ways does an annotation differ from just a description of an article?
(c) An annotation is often said to contain three to four elements. Describe those elements and what aspects of your review and commentary on an article would you expect to find in each element?
3. What actually is a literature review - see if you can find and discuss alternative definitions.
4. Identify and describe in detail what are the essential elements and content of a well designed and produced literature review.
5. Why do you need to review the literature on various aspects of the research that is specific to your topic? Discuss three reasons for writing a literature review of the topic you are researching.
6. Identify four factors that you think the examiners would be looking for in a welldesigned literature review. Why are these factors important to your research?
7. A major function of a literature review is to summarize and evaluate past research as a background for your own research. Describe how you might summarize and evaluate past research. How is that different from just describing it?
8. Another purpose of a literature review may be to give an overview of past controversies or alternative methodological approaches in the literature. How might you go about giving such an overview to the reader and relating it to your research?
Give examples from your research topic.
9. Identify four factors that may result in a poorly constructed literature review. Explain why these factors are significant and may lead to a poor research effort.
10. Choose a literature review from an article in a journal that is a key reference for your research topic. Now critical examine the literature review given in the article pointing out its strengths and weaknesses and how you might do it differently.

Assignment details: concentrates more on the understanding of anno...