Table of Contents (Outline of your paper–you will adjust as you progress with the completion of your paper):
Provide a projected Table of Contents as outlined in Appendix 9: Sample of a Table of Contents of the Capstone Manual (You may use the example, but place in the correct format for the final paper).
The Capstone Manual: The APUS End of Program Assessment Manual for Graduate Studies
As a guide, you may build your Table of Contents and write your literature review based on one or more of the following organizational patterns:
Chronological Patterns.
Sequential Patterns.
Spatial Patterns.
Compare-Contrast Patterns.
Advantages- Disadvantages Patterns.
Cause-Effect Patterns.
Problem-Solution Patterns.
Topical Patterns. The link between clear, logical organization and effective communication is powerful, both for the “sender” and the “receiver.” (“Pattern of Organizations,” n.d., para.1)
Source for more information: Pattern of Organizations. (n.d.).
Literature Review: You are to submit your Table of Contents, Introduction, Literature Review ranging from 7 – 15 pages in length with no less than 5 peer reviewed references as a complete paper.
Use the Table of Contents to guide the flow of the paper!
Matching percent from direct/in-direct quotes should not exceed 10%.
Review the literature on a specific research question.
The literature review should focus on discussing how other researchers have addressed the same or similar research questions.
It should introduce the study and place it in larger context that includes a discussion of why it is important to study this topic.
It should provide the current state of accumulated knowledge as it relates to the your specific research question/hypothesis/thesis statement.
Summarize the general state of the literature (cumulative knowledge base) on the specific research question/hypothesis/thesis statement: include researcher’s findings, how the findings were obtained, and evaluation of biases in the findings.
Include a short conclusion and transition to the next section.
Use peer reviewed research articles.
