Title: Draft "Literature Review"
Course: CJ601-01:Seminar in the Administration of Criminal Justice > Section: Writing Practice & Strategy

Overview:
In this assignment, you’ll be completing a draft version of your literature review section for your final proposal.

The literature review is where you’re introducing the reader to how the relationship between your variables operates (e.g. how does it work in real life, why is there a relationship between the two variables, why it makes sense that these variables are related). To do this, you need to find academic literature (research articles) that discuss your two variables/concepts, and discuss the findings of those articles.

This assignment is designed to be edited, improved, and included as part of your final proposal. Since this assignment will be submitted for feedback, suggestions, and comments from me, you’ll need to complete the assignment Google Docs, and submit your Doc on Canvas.

Requirements:
Substance (10 pts)

- The literature review section should be no more than 1.5 pages double-spaced.
- The literature review should include these 3 main components (brief examples below each item in red):
- A general statement about how academic literature demonstrates the relationship between the variables
  - “Scholars have demonstrated the relationship between social movement activity and policy change.”
- Discussion of one or more academic articles’ findings, as they relate to your variables
  - “For example, Amenta (1989) shows that things like lobbying or maintaining connections to politicians had a positive effect on the passage of Old Age policy in the United States. In addition, other work points to protest as being a more effective mobilizer of policy change (Piven and Cloward 1977; McAdam and Su 2002). McAdam and Su (2002) show that disruptive protest increased politicians attention to anti-war issues, which led to more Congressional anti-war legislation.”
- A summary statement that synthesizes the literature and relates to your research question
  - “This work demonstrates that not only do movement tactics influence policy change, but when those tactics are disruptive, they are more likely to lead policy changes that are beneficial to the movement and its constituents. For these reasons, I believe that college student protest operates in a similar way for educational policy.”

Format & Clarity (5 pts)

- 12-point font
- 1-inch margins on all sides
- First and Last Name on the first line of the header
- “Literature Review" as the title, centered as the second line of your header or the first line of the paper
- Ensure that you’re citations follow either ASA or APA format
- Clear grammar, punctuation, and flow of your writing

Grading:
You will be graded on 1) the clarity and format of your writing (including the title, name, font, margins, grammar, flow, etc), as well as 2) the presence and clarity of the 3 main components listed above.