RECENT ASSIGNMENT

Type: Assignment - Written Assignment
Learning Objectives Assessed: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
Due Dates: 17:00pm (5pm) 15 April 2015
Weight: 40%
Word limit: 1500 words
Task Description:
Practitioners in health related fields are required to be familiar with current literature in their chosen field of practice to ensure service delivery is based on the best available evidence. At times, this will involve searching for literature and compiling this in the form of a literature review. In order to develop your skills in conducting a review, this assessment requires you to write a literature review by:
Choosing a specific topic area of relevance to your field of study/practice
Establishing the importance of this research topic to the field
Conducting a search for relevant scholarly literature published on this topic within the past 5 - 10 years (or earlier if they are seminal works)
Critically analysing the literature and writing a review which synthesises the major themes in the literature
Identifying areas of controversy and gaps in literature and formulating questions that need further research
You should aim to focus on at least 15 scholarly sources of literature and ensure your review is written in a clear and scholarly manner, including spelling, grammar, structure, tone, and accurate referencing in accordance with the latest APA guidelines (APA 6th). Material will be provided in your study guide, book of readings, and on Learning@Griffith, which will assist you in conducting your review. The following sections are suggested to assist you to structure your review:
A brief discussion about your topic, a rationale for its choice and how the selected literature is relevant to it (so for example, you may provide a rationale for including or excluding overseas literature; or you might give a rationale for narrowing your topic to a particular intervention, such as groupwork or counselling).
Scope and method of literature search
Results of your review of the literature - a summary of what is and is not known ie. identification of the themes in the literature
Areas of controversy or debate in the literature
Areas that are not addressed in the literature and therefore need further research
Students are also encouraged to refer to the marking rubric on Learning@Griffith for detailed information on how the review will be assessed. It will also be extremely beneficial to talk with student colleagues, online at Learning@Griffith, to develop and refine your topic.
Criteria & Marking:
The literature review will be marked out of 100 points against the following criteria
Demonstrated ability to define and provide a rationale for a relevant topic (25 marks)
Location of a range of relevant literature (25 marks)
Capacity for critical review and analysis of the literature, which highlights the relevance of the selected to literature to practice (25 marks)
Academic standards of writing and referencing (25 marks)
(note, though the marks awarded are different to what was listed in the Course Profile, the weighting of each criteria has not changed. They are still worth 25 percent each.)
Papers will be marked individually and electronically and will be returned to students via Turn-It-In. Feedback will also be provided to the group as a whole on the course site.
Submission:
The assignment must be submitted through Turn-It-In on Learning@Griffith. This is a text matching system that will alert you and the convenor to possible incidences of plagiarism. Academic integrity is taken seriously and consequences of plagiarising are significant. As such, you are strongly encouraged to submit a draft to Turn-It-In to check, prior to submitting the final copy of your assignment. Tipsheets on using Turn-It-In are available under the Student Help section in Learning@Griffith.