Literature Review Section:

History:

Write short section describing the history of your questions.� Go back as far as it is practical to do so.

Find 20 or so articles and books that you plan to use to discuss your question:

• Step One:
• Organize your papers into rough categories. Generally there are a couple of sides to questions.� Some will agree and some will disagree.� Within those there may be some that seem to be saying about the same thing.
• Write an introduction for each group describing in general terms what each says.
• Step Two:
• For each citation in each category, briefly describe the findings of the paper.� Give reasons for trusting or not trusting the findings.� Give strengths and weaknesses.  Give a statement of relevance.  What does this article say about my question?
• Step Three:
• Write a summary for each group.� Summarize findings.
• Step Four:
• Write a conclusion summarizing the whole body of information.