An uptodate analysis and synthesis of the scholarly conversation on a given topic It should tell the reader what arguments scholars have made are making how they are making them method if necessary and how the conversation has changed over time The Lit Review should demonstrat ID: 738722
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The Literature ReviewSlide2
A Literature Review is:
An
up-to-date
analysis
and
synthesis
of the scholarly conversation on a given topic. It should tell the reader what arguments scholars have made / are making, how they are making them (method) if necessary, and how the conversation has changed over time. The Lit. Review should demonstrate that you can see the outlines of the larger scholarly conversation on your given
topic.Slide3
The steps for writing a Lit. Review
Research Question – of course…
Find your Sources
Organize and Synthesize your Sources
Write the ReviewSlide4
How NOT to write a Lit. Review
All summary, No synthesisSlide5
One way of thinking about a Lit.
R
eview
A large thought
bubble with
multiple sections
or themesSlide6
Another Way of thinking about a Lit. Review
A series of buckets into which you groups different takes on a field or topic Slide7
How TO write
a Lit. ReviewSlide8
Remember the
Burkean Parlor Metaphor
“Imagine
that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress
.”
-Kenneth Burke,
The Philosophy of Literary Form
,
110-111.