Matrix and Outline for the Review of Literature

Matrix and Outline for the Review of Literature

Paper details This has two parts Matrix – Abstracting Each Document/Article This is a Word document table with columns and rows that you use to abstract selected information about each journal article, book chapter, or other materials included in your review of the literature. This process will help the student identify themes expressed in the literature to be used in the integrated literature review. The literature matrix should contain 12–15 articles with at least 10 being research studies. -I will attach all articles for review as well as the outline to be used for matrix that I created. Outline for the Review of Literature After completion of the matrix, students are expected to identify themes and concepts that appear in their articles. Was there an intervention or a concept that ties several of the studies together? Was there a common outcome in several of the studies? A common theoretical framework? For this assignment, students are to develop an outline for their final review of literature that is organized by concept of theme. Use the different themes as headings in this section of the final paper and for the outline.This is the purpose of an integrated review. The articles are not reviewed separately but as an integrated whole, organized by concepts or themes.