Your literature review should be organized with the following sections:

Introduction
What: Define or identify the problem and/or controversy involved with your focus, thus providing an appropriate context for reviewing the literature.
Explain the criteria you used in analyzing and comparing literature (the criteria are usually based on the main issues that surround the problem).
Why: Justify the use of an interdisciplinary approach. Not every problem or question is an interdisciplinary one.
Explain why this problem or controversy is complex.
Explain why no single discipline has been able to address it comprehensively.
Explain how this focus is an unresolved societal need or issue.

How: Explain how each discipline is involved with the problem or controversy and the following overall trends in:
Published information about the problem
Conflicts in theory, methodology, evidence, and conclusions
Gaps in research and scholarship
When necessary, explain why certain literature is or is not included in the scope of your review.

Review of the Literature

You will need to write organized by topic or issue with information from your sources that to connects one author’s point of view to other author’s points of view on the same issue. Compare/contrast the research according to the criteria you’ve selected. This process is called synthesis, and it requires that you connect ideas by writing transitions from one source to another This is all based on the criteria or main points that you choose to focus on. You might synthesize sources based on either a particular position (those who support it vs those who oppose it vs. those offering alternative positions, for example). Remember, the criteria are the main points or issues that you’ve defined about the problem in your introduction. Keep your own opinions out of the literature review. A note about SYNTHESIS: It is an explanation of how each work is similar to and different from the others. There are three sample literature reviews at the following link: http://libguides.uwf.edu/c.php?g=215199&p=1420828 (Links to an external site.)

Conclusion
Include the following:

Identify the sources that are the best for your project—these should be the ones that are the most convincing of their opinions and make the greatest contribution to the understanding and development of their area of research.
Discuss the information you have gathered from reviewing this literature .
Restate your introduction and explain where there is a gap or a hole in the research, where you have found a place for your own voice and input.
Save this Literature Review and use it in your Interdisciplinary Project—it provides the basis for one entire section of the Interdisciplinary Project paper.

Format: Your literature review must include at least six (6) credible sources, of which four (4) must be peer-reviewed journal articles. These sources should all be scholarly, which means no dictionaries or encyclopedias. No Wikipedia. Websites with domains other than .gov, .edu, or .org should be carefully evaluated and limited.

Times New Roman font, 11 pt size, double spaced. This literature review should be approximately 5-10 pages long and must include a works cited page.

Please attach your Literature Review to this assignment. No late assignments will be accepted