Purpose: This assignment is designed to help you learn how to synthesize literature on a topic, which is an important skill for a researcher. The literature synthesis provides the reader with important information about prior research related to your topic. Additionally, the synthesis is used to suggest a potential intervention to address the identified problem.
Directions:
1. Organize the literature that you reviewed in your annotated bibliography (i.e., a minimum of eight primary, peer-reviewed research articles that are no more than six years old) and any additional primary, peer-reviewed research articles. Look at how the information in the articles supports the need to address your topic and suggests a potential intervention to address the problem identified in your topic. Note that more than eight articles related to the topic/focus are required to earn a grade of “excellent.”
2. Write a synthesis of what you have found, supporting what you say with citations from the various articles. Compare and contrast the findings and recommendations.
3. Conclude your synthesis with your choice of the most promising intervention strategy that you found to address the problem identified in Assignment