Writing Assignments
As a graduate student, you will be completing writing assignments that involve doing scholarly research. Some typical assignment formats include writing an annotated bibliography, a literature review, and more. The resources below should help you become familiar with these types of assignments. If you would like to learn more about doing scholarly research in graduate school, check out the Peabody Library Research Channel!
The Research Process
Annotated Bibliography
- How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography: The Annotated BibliographyCourtesy of Cornell University Library.
Literature Review
What is a literature review?
"Literature review articles....provide narrative summaries and evaluations of the finding or theories within a literature base. The literature base may include qualitative, quantitative, and/or mixed methods research. Literature reviews capture trends in the literature; they do not engage in a systematic quantitative or qualitative meta-analysis of the finding from the initial studies." (APA, 2020, p. 8).
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association : the official guide to APA style. (Seventh edition.). (2020). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
- Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate StudentsCourtesy of NCSU Libraries.
- The Literature Review Process (Prezi)A visual overview of the steps in the research process.
- Purdue Online Writing Lab (Purdue OWL)How to write an APA Literature Review, according to Purdue OWL.
The Process
