How to fix your Literature Review - Daily Blog 1-22-19

Before class started, Mr. Rivers explained that everyone received an email with the graded rubric of your literature review from last week.  The class did end up taking some notes in class, however, they were mostly made up of things you can do to improve your literature review for the final product. Some of the changes may apply to your review, and others may not, but what Mr. Rivers wants to see is a process; he wants us to be critical thinkers and to solve the problems that come with writing.

Remember that your senior paper is due on 2-1-19 at 11:59 PM. (Includes a literature review, synthesis, and the works cited/reference page)

Make sure to reread the feedback and your literature review before making these changes to your review itself:

General Literature Review Feedback:

• Literature Review =/= Literary Review   (make sure to call it specifically a Literature Review)
• Last Names > First Names (ethos)      (make sure to credit a source or scholar with their last name instead of their first name - looking for credibility)
• Authentic research requires learning from scholars    (go beyond information that your audience knows - use your information to go deeper)
• INTEGRATE EVIDENCE THROUGH REVISION

Next Steps to Leveling Up Your Paper?

Find where you are on your paper and how many or how little you need to work on

• Heavy revisions - add film, find FUNDAMENTAL scholars
• Moderate revisions - connect scholarly sources, specify film
• Light revisions -    grammer, formating, refine conversation

And it is okay if you completely change your entire Literature Review if you wanted to. If you find an article that changes your paper entirely, it is on you because obviously it requires more work, but you do have the opportunity to do that if your truly wanted to.

Mr. Rivers was very disappointed to that fact that some students did not include a works cited or a reference page to their literature review last week. IF YOU DO NOT INCLUDE A WORKS CITED OR REFERENCE PAGE FOR YOUR SENIOR PAPER IT BECOMES A ZERO. Especially with plagiarism, it is just a way for Mr. Rivers to make sure that you did the work that you needed to do for the paper. Don’t cut the corner of not including it, because it applies to your audience, and I don’t mean Mr. Rivers, I mean the scholars in which your academic lens applies to.