Literature Review Assignment

There are two commonly used kinds of literature reviews. First, a literature review can articulate a research gap in the published peer reviewed journals which your research project can fill. It is the written to review what’s been published in order to determine what knowledge exists on the subject under study. When you identify gaps, then you can show the reader how your project will fit in. Second, a literature review can develop the variables and theoretical framework that will be used in a scientific research study. This type of literature review summarizes a theory to deduce a hypothesis which will be tested later in the next phase of the scientific research cycle. In this style of literature review, the scholar uses previously published articles on a THEORY (or on a related topic) to determine the variables that make up the project. Similar to the thematic analysis in the previous paper, you use the literature review to determine the key measurable variables. This assignment requires you to write 1,000 words on the first kind of literature review and 1,000 words on the second kind of literature review. Be sure to write this paper in a formal academic style using proper citations and peer reviewed sources. Define terms but leave out casual jargon and personal pronouns. For this assignment complete the following steps: 1. Download the State of the Literature assignment template [download] to write your paper. 2. Locate peer-reviewed sources to aid in writing your paper. You may use the same topic as your research question from the week 3 discussion or the week 4 case study. Or you may choose a new topic. Focus on Homeland Security. Write about: Mitigating Cybercrime Threats to Water Supply Systems: A Case Study of the 2021 Oldsmar Water Treatment Plant Cyberattack – This assignment summarizes the “state of the literature.” It does not use data or topical sources like government websites, newspapers, and datasets. The purpose of this literature review is to alert the reader to what scholars are publishing on this topic. – Do a survey of what has been published over the last five years or so. These will be peer reviewed articles published in scholarly journals on homeland security topics. 3. Prepare an APA title page and write a few paragraphs introducing your research topic. 4. Summarize the issues and findings of the published scholarship and find a gap that the scholarship does not cover. Be sure to organize around headings that clarify the themes in the literature. 5. Identify the gap and conclude with a specific research question that can fill that gap in the scholarship. 6. For the second literature review, download the Theory Literature assignment template [download]. 7. Then start with a few paragraphs summarizing the research gap and question that you identified in the gap spotting literature review. 8. Then search for and identify theories that apply to your research topic in homeland security. You may use the ones identified in the AI search from the week six discussion post to help you find one theory to describe in this literature review. 9. After identifying ONE theory, search the APUS library for peer reviewed articles (not newspapers, datasets or government websites) which describe, test, and examine the theory. 10. Summarize the theory, its antecedents and component variables. Use these variables as headings in the literature review. 11. Conclude with a hypothesis that you could use to test the applicability of the theory to your topic and answer the question. 12. Add a summary of the previous literature review and compare the question to the hypothesis. Include some ideas about the topic.