IntroductionBy now, you will have identified a topic relevant to social psychology, formulated a research question, and completed 6 written summaries of peer-reviewed studies on your topic. In this unit, you will bring all this information together to complete a literature review to address your target question.The purpose of a literature review is to express to your reader the knowledge and ideas that have been established on a topic. Your literature review should describe the strengths and weaknesses in the literature on the topic you have chosen. The literature review must be defined by a guiding concept (e.g., your research question). The literature review is NOT just a descriptive list of the material available, or a regurgitation of the summaries written in your research so far. A literature review must do these things:Be organized around and related directly to your research questionSynthesize and organize resultsIdentify trends or findingsIdentify areas of disagreementFormulate questions that need further researchRemember a literature review is:NOT simply a listing of the article summariesYou need to use your summaries to identify themes. Then, use these themes to organize a cohesive paper.View the following websites for more detailed information on writing literature reviews:How to Write a Literature Review (Links to an external site.)Before you beginYou may want to familiarized yourself with the example paper provide.Lit Review Student Example 1Lit Review Student Example 2Use APA StyleYour information must be organized, presented, and referenced using APA style. For information on APA style, see the following links:APA Style (Links to an external site.)Using APA Format (Links to an external site.)OWL Lit Review ExampleOf particular interest, you will want to visit Land
marks Citation Machine (Links to an external site.) which is an automated site to help you convert your resources into correct APA citation and reference format.Writing Your PaperNow it is time to write your literature review utilizes a minimum of 6 empirical, peer-reviewed, research journal studies as the basis for the literature review. The Paper must be written in APA style.You can use the following outline a starting point for your literature review:Title Page (required)Abstract page (required)Body of paper (10 full pages)Introduce your research questionstart off by presenting your research questionaddress why you chose the topic or why you find it interestingstate the specific lines of research you will be discussingDescribe each study (or each line of research, depending on what makes sense), then compare them.Compare studies. Determine which aspects of the studies are relevant. Point out strengths and weaknesses in the studies. Compare:multicultural implications, findings, relevance and/or significanceresearch assumptionsresearch theories testedhypotheses statedresearch designs usedvariables selected (independent and dependent)results obtainedinterpretation of resultsspeculations about future studiesEvaluate the work done in the area you are researching based on your comparisons and state:strengths – supported with evidenceweaknesses – supported with evidencewhat requires futher studySummarize your findingssummarize what is known and not knownsynthesize and summarize the findings of the studies and indicate how they answer your research questionmake recommendations suggest future studiesspecify how studies would contribute to the work already doneReferences (required) – Follow APA guidelinesDue DateLiterature Review Paper (75 points): Due before 11:59 p.m., Sunday, CT.