Literature Review Overview
- Integrate information from peer-reviewed research papers that provides information on the health problem and potential evidence-based solutions..
Literature Review (An "A" paper will integrate information from all the journal articles you cite - integrate multiple articles to make each point).
- For the community health problem you are researching, locate and read 5 or more professional (peer-reviewed) research articles from scholarly journals.
- Consider the following when reading your article:
- What were the author(s) studying and why?
- What did the author(s) expect to find?
- Who/how many participants were included in the study?
- How did the author(s) measure what they were studying?
- What were the author(s) comparing, measuring, or correlating? Look over the tables and figures presented to get some sense of whether the results supported the hypotheses.
- Did the results support or fail to support hypotheses of the author(s).
- What were the author(s) conclusions? What are your own? (You need not agree with the authors[s]).
- What limitations of the research did the author(s) provide? What are some of your own? (You need not agree with the authors[s]).
- What ideas for future were presented by the author(s)? What are some of your own?
- In your final paragraph, summarize the key information from your articles.
