Literature Review Report

You have to write a Literature Review Report following the instructions. Here, I attached a Writing Rubric also,

You have to write the report by following that Rubric. What is a literature review? A Literature Review is an essay of literature that has been reviewed about a particular topic. For the purpose of this assignment, it will be a review of the literature directly related to the topic identified below.

The purpose of the literature review is to know what others have researched and discovered about your topic before you begin an investigation of your own into a topic. It shows that you are well conversed about a topic and possess enough knowledge so as to suggest expert, useful and comprehensive advice about future research into that area.. Assessment Criteria • Topic: advantages and disadvantages of Reverse Logistics • Length: minimum 1,000 words (not including bibliography) • Sources/references: minimum of 6 • Content: See appendix plus Harvard referencing (including citations & a bibliography) Appendix Outline for a literature review: 1. Introduction (without this heading) Write an introduction paragraph for your review. This paragraph • states and introduces the topic with a little background information • state the research questions for this review • tells the reader specific information about the common themes and categories you have sorted the review into based on the findings. 2. Body (without this heading) Before you begin this section, be sure that you have sorted your articles into different themes based on the articles’ findings (sometimes called results). After you sort your articles, it is important to give your sorted groups a descriptive name. The names of the sorted articles will become your headings for each of the paragraphs that you write in the body of your review. The body of your literature review will include, • Theme 1: a paragraph or several paragraphs that describe the first theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you’ve selected. • Theme 2: a paragraph or several paragraphs that describes the second theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you’ve selected. • Theme 3: a paragraph or several paragraphs that describes the third theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you’ve selected. • … … 3. Summary This is the last paragraph of your literature review. In this paragraph, it is important to briefly summarise the main findings from the articles that you reviewed and to point out how your research questions were answered or not answered. 4. Bibliography This is the list of articles cited in your paper. Please use Harvard style when completing this list, use alphabetical order and place it on a separate page.