Systematic Review paper
Assignment Description:
For this assignment, you are asked to complete a small-scale literature review on an educational topic of your choice. You are asked to locate at least 5 educational journal articles on your topic and write a 5-page literature review ( Not including the title page and bibliography) on the articles you’ve selected.
Steps to complete your small-scale literature review:
Choose an educational topic that you are interested in studying.
Formulate a PICO inquiry question that specifically describes what would like to know about your educational topic. Use the template provided to construct your PICO.
Go to the FIU online library or google scholar to search for and locate journals that include your topic’s information.
Find articles, read the abstracts, and critique the articles to determine if they correspond well to your topic AND inquiry question.
Select at least 5 scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles for your reference.
Read your articles and begin to sort and classify them according to their findings.
Organize your articles by sorting and classifying their findings in a meaningful way, always considering your original topic and inquiry question.
Write your review in AMA using Endnote or Refworks for your bibliography.
Outline for writing your small-scale literature review
Introduction
The introduction is used to establish the context of your review to the reader. To establish the context, it is important to do the following in this opening paragraph:
Define the topic of your study and provide any background information that helps your reader to understand the topic.
Explain your reason (perspective) for reviewing the literature on this topic.
State your inquiry question for this review.
Body
This section of your paper begins with an explanation of how you have organized your small-scale literature review and describes findings from articles that provide answers to your inquiry question. Before you begin this section, be sure that you have sorted your articles into different themes based on the articles’ findings (sometimes called results). After you sort your articles, it is important to give your sorted groups a descriptive name. The names of the sorted articles will become your headings for each of the paragraphs that you write in the body of your review. To write the body of your small-scale literature review, it is important to include the following:
Write an introduction paragraph for the body of your review. This
paragraph tells the reader specific information on how many articles you reviewed and how you sorted the articles into common themes based on the findings (results).
This will be a paragraph that describes the first theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you’ve selected.
This will be a paragraph that describes the second theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you’ve selected.
This will be a paragraph that describes the third theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you’ve selected.
Summary
This is the last paragraph of your small-scale literature review. In this paragraph, it is important to summarize the main findings from the articles that you reviewed and to point out the information that you found particularly important to know that answered the inquiry question that you established in the first paragraph of your review. Try to conclude your paper by connecting your inquiry question back to the context of the general topic of study.
References
This is the last page of your review. It serves as a listing of all references that you mentioned in your paper. Please use AMA style when completing this list.
Margins
One inch margins are required around the text. Leave the right margin unjustified.
Line Spacing
All sections of the paper are single-spaced. Double-space between paragraphs and sections.
Fonts
JAMA specifies a 12-point black color only. There is no requirement for the typeface. A serif font is commonly used in a publication (e.g. Times New Roman).
Indents
Half-inch indents are standard.
Page Numbers
Every page of a research paper is numbered consecutively in the upper right corner, starting with the title page. Do not change numbering systems through the text, even with lengthy data sets or appendixes.
Headers
A short title header goes at the top of the page( Your Name), aligned with the page number or left margin. This takes the place of the “running head” required of copy manuscripts.
Reference List
Number the references in the order that they were cited in the text. Single spaced within the citation and double-space between citations. There are no hanging indents.
