Discussion Post 4

Keep the Discussion Post guidelines in mind as you complete this assignment.

This week's discussion helps you advance your Literature Review by examining actual examples of the genre from your field and finding a source you can include in your own work.

This discussion post has two parts:

1. Compare and Contrast Literature Reviews

Provide links to two literature reviews published in one or more of your field's journals, and then discuss in about a paragraph or two ways the reviews are similar and different. How do they characterize the field?

(The class read Bulfone, Malekinejad, Rutherford, & Razani's "Outdoor Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Viruses" Download "Outdoor Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Viruses" this week, and you can readily find other examples of literature reviews such as Mawdsley, O'Malley, & Ojima's "A Review of Climate-Change Adaptation Strategies for Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Conservation," Download "A Review of Climate-Change Adaptation Strategies for Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Conservation," Kellens, Terpstra, & De Maeyer's "Perception and Communication of Flood Risks: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research," Download "Perception and Communication of Flood Risks: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research," and Mase and Prokopy's "Unrealized Potential: A Review of Perceptions and Use of Weather and Climate Information in Agricultural Decision Making" Download "Unrealized Potential: A Review of Perceptions and Use of Weather and Climate Information in Agricultural Decision Making".)

2. Find a Possible Source for Your Literature Review

Locate a scholarly source (anonymously peer reviewed & appearing in a disciplinary publication) that you might include in your Literature Review. Then provide the following information about it:

1. Full citation (use your citation manager to make this correct and easy)
2. One sentence that states the work's thesis (the answer to the study's research question—not its goals or what it's about)
3. Two or three sentences of summary that identify the work's main points (the article's abstract will be helpful here)
4. One paragraph that identifies gaps or unknowns about the topic that the source leaves unaddressed (this helps us find knowledge gaps)