Assignment Overview: While you do not have to identify every article or book eve

Assignment Overview:
While you do not have to identify every article or book ever published on the topic, you do need to read and review foundational and seminal works as well as contemporary studies to construct a sound literature review. Your sources should reflect sufficient breadth, relevance, and authority to inform your reader about pertinent previous research on the topic. Thus, a way to approach a literature review is to identify and review pertinent, published scholarly literature, moving from a broad perspective of the topic to a narrow perspective associated with your phenomenon, situation, or variables. Then, use those sources to create an outline of what you want to include in the literature review.
Creating a literature-review outline is this week’s Written Assignment. You will use the outline to write a full literature review in Week Six. The annotated bibliography you created in Scholarly Argument I will be a good tool to use to organize your thinking about the sources you want to include in the full literature review. Use the annotated bibliography as well as the additional resources you identified in the Week Two, Three, and Four Learning Activities to identify which sources will be included in the different parts of the literature-review outline, and to show you where you need to gather additional resources to flesh out the literature review.
If you did not complete Scholarly Argument I, begin by identifying at least five qualitative research studies, five quantitative research studies, and five institutional, organizational, or governmental agency sources that are relevant to your research topic. Include in your list the sources you identified in the Week Two, Three, and Four Learning Activities to determine which sources will be included in the different parts of the literature-review outline, and to show you where you need to gather additional resources to flesh out the literature review. These sources will form the basis of the literature review that you will write in your Week Six assignment.
Assignment Instructions:
Write an outline of a literature review to support and provide background for your proposed research study. The outline should be at least 700 words (not including title and reference pages) and should cover the key points you want to include in a full literature review. Your literature-review outline should follow these guidelines:
Start by identifying and outlining a general overview of the topic to provide context for the literature review.
Outline key points that need to be covered to provide sufficient background on the rationale and purpose for your proposed study.
Progress from a broad perspective to a narrowed perspective that highlights why a study to answer your proposed research question would be important.
Identify and outline trends or themes in what has been published about the topic, as well as important contradictions or disagreements in what scholars or practitioners have concluded about the topic.
Summarize in outline form any identified gaps in the literature or in common practitioner-based practice that help establish the reason for conducting your proposed study.
Use bullet points or short phrases as opposed to full sentences or paragraphs to organize your thinking.
Incorporate at least 15 sources identified from the scholarly literature, from trade and professional publications, and from institutional, organizational, and governmental agency databases.
You do not need to include an abstract for this assignment. However, you must include a title page and a reference page, correctly formatted per APA guidelines, which list any sources you identified or cited in your outline.
Point Value: 12 Points
Weekly Learning Outcome Alignment: 1, 2, 3, 4
Course Learning Outcome Alignment: 1, 2, 4, 7