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Lesson 7
CI 501 Proposal Literature Review Requirements
One important section of your inquiry project proposal for this class is a literature review. This section of your proposal will be a 5-10 page double-spaced original piece of academic writing in which you summarize published literature that is related to the research question(s) you wrote in your research plan. You should draw on at least 8 pieces of published research. These should be high-quality academic or professional literature. You will not only summarize the pieces but connect them to one another and to your research question(s) and your research plan.
NOTE: If you're planning on using literature as the primary data source in your proposed inquiry project (and/or for your Master's paper), you should think of this "literature review section" of your proposal as a separate piece of writing. In the "literature review section," you'll want to use literature in the ways we've been discussing in this module: connecting your current question to ongoing conversations in the field, building your rationale for why this particular question is important, and providing insight into how you made decisions about your current project. Your "findings section" of a finished inquiry report, then, would be a review of literature as data that actually helps you answer your inquiry question.