Module 4

Module 4

 

DUE: Read Galvan chapters 4 through end of the book. Write draft of your lit review.

 

I hope last week’s exercise was helpful in further refining your topic. I’ve been emailing with you all individually and you’re moving in the right direction. The Galvan text we use in this class is a great resource. It may also seem intimidating! Keep in mind that the process you’re using is one you’d apply in grad school if you were preparing to write your dissertation. You might spend an entire year or more on your literature review in grad school. Your literature review would become a process of self-education on your chosen topic, your topic would be something you attempt to delve into more deeply than any other scholar ever has, or in a novel way that nobody has yet thought about… you’d be spending years exploring it and it quite possibly would become a lifelong and career-defining pursuit. 

 

We don’t need to go that deep in this class. But we do need to introduce you to the process. This week, you’ll finish reading the Galvan text all the way through, and you’ll write your first draft of your literature review. At the end of the Galvan text, there are several examples of lit reviews. The one that may be most relevant to your framework for this particular class is the third:

 

3) Grekin E.R. & Ayna, D. (2012). Waterpipe smoking among college students in the United States: A review of the literature. Journal of American College Health, 60(3), 244-249. 

 

I recommend that you read that example FIRST, then read the remainder of the Galvan chapters, all the way to the end of the book. As you read, you can concurrently begin writing your first draft of your literature review. Next week, you’ll revise to a final draft, and then we’ll already be moving on to our next steps… thinking about your survey.