1.1 Draft

Assignment: Draft 1.1

Purpose: To demonstrate your ability to review and analyze research

Description: Most writers, in the academic setting and beyond, review previous research as part of their own writing. How they do this reviewing differs, though, across different academic disciplines and rhetorical situations. Your task for this assignment is to compare Martin Alexander’s review essay pp. 556-63 with that from another discipline to create a guide and create an analysis of the features of a literature review. Your analysis should focus on how and why literature reviews are written. Keep in mind that this type of writing may be called a literature review, an analytical literature review, a research review, or simply a review essay. Different fields have different names for an essay that reviews scholarship or research on a topic.

Select an academic discipline that is or might be your major, and locate a literature review for that field.

1. Read the essay through once so that you understand its scope and the author’s argument. Then, analyze how the author crafted the review. How does the author group research on similar topics? What information about the research does the author provide? How does the author arrange the essay? What is the rhetorical effect of that arrangement? What is the author’s reason for reviewing this body of research?

2. Determine the most interesting or important points of similarity and contrast between the chemistry review essay and the review essay in your discipline.

3. Write an analysis of the features of a literature review. In this analysis, you will consider how a literature review is written.

For this essay, you must

o Include the bibliographic information on the literature review essay you chose.

o Section One: Include your analysis of the literature review essay you have chosen. Take the approach that your audience has not read the essay. You will need to provide them with enough details and examples so that they will understand your analysis. Remember, though, that you are not analyzing the content of the essay but rather the structure of the essay. The primary focus in analysis is on structure.

o Section Two: Include your comparison of Alexander’s essay and the review essay you have chosen.

o Section Three: Create an analysis of the elements of the literature review essay as a genre. In this analysis, you should not only explain what is to be done when writing literature reviews, but explain why something should be done. You will be using this to guide you in writing your own literature review, so you need to be as thorough as possible. This draft will ask you to explain how a literature review essay is written. In the next draft, you will demonstrate how by actually writing one.

Minimum length: 1500 words

Format: MLA style for internal citations and works cited.

Literature Reviews

I'm an intellegent person, but for the life of me, I had a hard time finding these writing reviews. So I'm giving you all what I found. Enjoy.

Literature Reviews:

· Fearing Fat: A Literature Review of Family Systems Understandings and Treatments of Anorexia and Bulimia

Kyle D. Killian

Family Relations, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Jul., 1994), pp. 311-318

· The Costs and Benefits of Sentencing: A Systematic Review

Cynthia McDougall, Mark A. Cohen, Raymond Swaray and Amanda Perry

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 587, Assessing Systematic Evidence in Crime and Justice: Methodological Concerns and Empirical Outcomes (May, 2003), pp. 160-177

· Thirty Years of Black American Literature and Literary Studies: A Review

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2, Special Issue: Back to the Future of Civilization: Celebrating 30 Years of African American Studies (Nov., 2004), pp. 165-174

· Recent Moves in the Sociology of Literature

Wendy Griswold

Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 19, (1993), pp. 455-467

· Lung Cancer Risk after Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A Review and Meta-Analysis

Ben Armstrong, Emma Hutchinson, John Unwin and Tony Fletcher

Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, No. 9, 2004 Annual Review (Jun., 2004), pp. 970-978

· Lead Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review

Ana Navas-Acien, Eliseo Guallar, Ellen K. Silbergeld and Stephen J. Rothenberg

Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, No. 3 (Mar., 2007), pp. 472-482

Week 4

Einstein's Train Ticket

In class writing

Things I don't want to see on your papers.

Draft 1.1
What it is.
What we expect.
Literary reviews.

Break into groups

Go over Martin Alexander’s review essay pp. 556-63

Read it
Discuss it
Analyze it

How Apollo 8 saved 1968

activation code

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Week 3

John Glenn Day

Writing Prompt
-10 things to do before you die
-what assumptions are made from these choices?

Take Roll

Reading Quiz

Grade Reading Quiz

Talk about having to take the diagnostic like...now

Talk about reading

Talk about Finding a Lit Review

Show examples of lit review

Talk about assignment expectations

Notes for life by Dave Barry

Lesson for Week 2

Intro to Space History

Take Roll

Writing Prompt

Discuss Writing Prompt

Problems With Logging In

Finding a Review

View Jon Stewart Clip

youtube link

Discuss Reading

Discuss Basic Issues with Argument

Break into Groups to find Examples of Bad Arguments

Talk about the Assignment

Break down "Holocaust" Article

1. Read “The Holocaust” (p. 363-365).

2. Why does Bettelheim object to the use of the term holocaust? Do you agree or disagree with his objection? Why, or why not? Be prepared to back up your claims with examples from the text.

3. Finally, read carefully the entire section on 'Language as Power' on pages 194-199.

What view(s) on language are exhibited in Bettelheim’s essay? In other words, what views on the nature of language are Bettelheim’s ideas built on? (For instance, does he seem to believe in the representative theory of language?) Be sure to support your position with evidence from the text in the form of direct quotes or paraphrases. (You can find the discussion of integrating quotes in Chapter 15 of the handbook if you need assistance.)

Homework

1. Read “The Ethnobiologist’s Dilemma” (343-349).

2. What did Diamond learn about his own language when he realized that the tribesmen had many words for birds and only one word for rocks, no matter what their texture or shape or mineral content?

3. Finally, read carefully the entire section on 'Language as Power' on pages 194-199.

What view(s) on language are exhibited in Diamond’s essay? In other words, what views on the nature of language are Diamond’s ideas built on? (For instance, does he seem to believe in the representative theory of language?) Be sure to support your position with evidence from the text in the form of direct quotes or paraphrases. (You can find the discussion of integrating quotes in Chapter 15 of the handbook if you need assistance.)

2) Read the Amy Tan article

Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue."

3) All that other reading


Miles and Miles to Go...

New Information

About Raiderwriter

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This is the new info. It should resolve things. Good luck and let me know if this isn't working. Sorry for the rough start.

Yours,

Mr. T

Diagnostic and Raiderwriter Information

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If you have students in your sections who have NOT registered to take the
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