Step 1: Drawing on the book that you found in our “Using the Library” activity for inspiration, select a topic in some way related to advancing the scholarly conversation around BLM.
Step 2: Using the UBC library database, develop a familiarity with other books and articles that seem to address your topic Carefully select at least two additional scholarly sources (articles or book chapters) that deepen your understanding of your research topic.
Step 3: Use the skills we’ve discussed in class to summarize each article and bring the three perspectives into conversation using the strategies for orchestrating voices found in AW.
Step 4: Bring a draft of your review to class on Friday, October 21 for a peer review workshop. Your participation in the workshop as a reviewee and a reviewer will count toward your class participation grade.
Details:
The first part of your literature review should begin by explaining what your research topic is and why it is relevant to BLM. Provide a general introduction to the research that you’ve conducted and to your findings: what is the state of the field?
The second part of your review should summarize the concepts presented by each scholarly source. Rather than summarizing each author’s argument, identify major concepts or issues that are addressed by each source and in 1-2 paragraphs per concept, discuss how each author approaches and discusses that concept.
The third part of your review should return to a survey of the field, and assess its relationship to your research question: highlight gaps in this research; stress the larger significance of this research to the BLM movement; offer your own comments and/or criticisms of this research; or propose new questions for future research.
