To prepare:

• Review the resources about analyzing literature and outlining for topic themes.
• Using your annotated bibliography, analyze the literature to find themes under which you can place each article. The themes should demonstrate that your argument is worthwhile and justified, leading to the gap in the literature.
• Review the web resource Evidence-Based Arguments in the Learning Resources. Focus on the section titled “Using Evidence.”

Assignment: 3- or 4-page paper, not including title page or references page(s)

• Using your annotated bibliography, create a literature review outline in which you:  
  • Identify the themes that are represented.
  • Then, group your annotated bibliography entries under each theme. Note: This represents the start of the subject headings for the Literature Review chapter of your dissertation.