1
Literature review
Due date: Thursday, 20 April 11.59pm Australian Eastern Standard Time
Marks out of: 50
Weighting: 20%
Purpose: This assessment will assess course objectives 2, 3, 4 and 5
1.0 – Literature review for proposed research question
Literature reviews can be very large bodies of work, reviewing hundreds of documents and
summarising and critically reviewing the research to present an overall conclusion about a
topic or research question. This assessment will not be quite so large, but effort and care
must be taken to produce a literature review regardless of its size.
Using the research question you developed in Assessment 1 Part A, and the research
articles you catalogued and referenced in Assessment 1 part C, you will provide a short
literature review of approximately 1000 – 1500 words. The main task of this “literature review”
is to justify why you selected your research question. This will include presenting the
research that is already present surrounding your research question, and providing a critical
explanation as to the important nature of the research question. This may also include
highlighting any unknown information.
The following key aspects will be expected in the literature review:
• Describing the overall topic surrounding the research question
• Summarising what literature is available on the research question
• Justify why this research question is relevant and important (using the literature to
support the argument)
• Definitions of key terms specific to that topic
• Explanation of the rationale of the research question (justification)
• Citations embedded within the document
• Reference list
References
• References are expected to be included using EndNote. It will be assumed all
students will use Endnote for this Assessment’s purposes. Note: Students who are
proficient in LaTeX and associated referencing software such as BibTeX, or other
referencing software should contact the course examiner if they wish to use different
referencing software. Proficiency will need to be demonstrated for the course
examiner to approve an alternative.
• The majority of references used in Assessment 1 are expected to be included in this
assessment. Additional references are also expected to be included as you find more
information between the time of completing Assessment 1 and Assessment 2.
• When referenced correctly, many journal articles will be referenced as a print copy.
This assessment will also require you to provide a second reference list that provides
the direct URL or online resource for each reference that you have used (with
2
embedded hyperlink). If you used a hard copy item that does not have a digital
copy online, you will need to indicate where and how the item was obtained (library,
privately owned), and ideally a link to publication description of the book online. This
will be important for the second part of this assessment.
Formatting of the Literature Review Document
The literature review should use the following document formatting to provide ease of
reading:
• Text or word processing document only (not .pdf) that demonstrates coding of
reference management software. LaTeX users must request approval for use.
• 1.5 line spacing
• Size 11 font
• Use a commonly used font type such as Times New Roman, Verdana or Calibri.
• Insert line numbers (if you are uncertain how to include line numbers, type “insert line
numbers in XX document” – replacing XX with the type of word processing software
you are using) into a browser search bar.
• Page numbers
• Endnote will format your references for Harvard AGPS. If you are not using EndNote
correctly, this will be obvious to the marker. Please check your usage.
• Include a title for the Reference list
• Title page containing:
o Title of literature review (research question)
o Name
o Student Number
o Course number and name
• Include a title for the Reference list
• Note: An Abstract is NOT required for this assessment
Generating a Turnitin Report
In order for a peer to assess work, you will need to the use the Turnitin self-checking course
to produce a turnitin report on the literature review, which must be submitted with your
literature review and active links document.
1.1 – Required Submission Documents:
Supply each of the following as a separate document
1. Literature review:
o This must include your original reference list
o Name your document Surname_Student ID_Review
2. Active links Reference list
o As stipulated in the assessment instructions, this list should have active links
where your peer can locate the documents you used to create your peer
review.
o Name your document Surname_Student ID_Links
3. Turnitin Report
3
o Use the Turnitin – self checking course enrolment and use for instruction to
create your Turnitin report.
o Alternatively, it is possible to use the Turnitin plugin that is part of the
assessment portal, to also download your report. However if you are not
familiar with how to do this, use the previous method.
o Name your document Surname_StudentID_Turnitin
Where:
Surname is your last name or ‘family’ name; and
Student ID is your UniSQ student ID number e.g. 0061234567
Important Information about the Submission portal
• This is a “workshop” portal rather than an assessment portal. Therefore it will look
different to what you may be used to.
• This portal does not have a “submit” button.
• You must upload all three documents simultaneously.
• Your submission will be registered as submitted when you can see “submitted”
written underneath your name as the assessment status.
• You will not receive an email confirming your submission.
• Turnitin will also read any text you type into the submission area (i.e., if you write in
what you have submitted as documents). It may cause Turnitin to generate a warning
that looks like this:
You can ignore the warning, since it is only saying you typed in less than 20 words
into the submission area.
• The dates demonstrated in the workshop may look a little different to the dates in this
document. The date in the workshop is the final closing date for the portal, not
the due date for the assessment. In order to accommodate extensions, this date
will be different to the designated due dates in this document. This does not mean
you are receiving an automatic extension. All extensions must be applied for by you.
The workshop “portal” is unable to include extension due dates, so these will be
applied and given to you elsewhere.
4
1.2 – Example rubric for the Literature Review – Marker’s use

5

6