#3 Reading the Literature Review (freewrite, 10 minutes)

Recently you were asked to find and read a published literature review. Freewrite about what you noticed about the literature review? How does its structure and focus differ from the article you used for the Anatomy of a Journal Article assignment? The information sheet on Literature Reviews noted several forms of organization that literature review can take. How was the literature review you read organized? How is a literature review different than papers you have written in the past? How might the literature review be useful as support for a project proposal?
I noticed that there are different organizational patterns for literature reviews.

The literature review I read was organized based on ideas. It had 1 sectoin on one idea, then another section on another idea. The literature review reminds me of an introduction to a research paper where it gives some background supported by previous research conducted. The differences it that I think the literature review is more of an analysis in comparison to a regular research paper which has more straight forward background of the topic. The literature review analyses many different papers and sees how they relate. I think that a literature review can be used as support for a project proposal because it can give information about previously conducted studies and how the project proposal different or improves upon those studies. Most of the papers ive written in the past were either research papers or some kind of experiment write up. The literature review is something new to me but its very similar in that it integrates sources from previous research. The literature can provide a good overview of whats new in the field and can help you decide on what needs to be done in your own project proposal