Operation Jawbreaker(CIA First-In Team In Afghanistan After 9/11)
In this assignment you will undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on your topic. You should review at least seven scholarly sources and seven additional sources which may be scholarly or not. In some cases, such as Operation JAWBREAKER, you will need to review the books written by the team leaders, such as “First In” by Gary Schroen and “Jawbreaker” by Gary Bernsten. You may count each of these books as a scholarly source. When reviewing books, be sure to explain how the authors’ approaches differ from one another. Organize your review thematically rather than by author and use it to structure the arguments which you make in your paper. I have attached the literature review formatting guide which we use in the thesis course. Your assigment should be approximately 8-10 pages, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, double spaced.
LITERATURE REVIEW
A literature review begins with a few introductory paragraphs (you should not use a subheading “Introduction” though, since this is assumed because it is found at the start of the section). In the introduction you need to frame your research topic and its significance, along with present the research puzzle that you are working to address. To do that you will need to summarize the major relevant arguments that occur within the literature on your research topic; you will need to highlight all major issues and also discuss how the major schools of thought on the issue differ. If there are any key terms that need to be defined, you should do this within your introduction as well. For example, within the social sciences this section is referred to as a “literature review” because it provides a broad overview of the research (previously completed) that is important to your study. A “literary review” on the other hand, is a common term used to describe an assessment of a novel. The introduction section should be around 2-3 pages in length.
Literature Review Body
The body of your literature review informs readers about what others have found in their own research on your specific research question (i.e. the extent of existing knowledge on your specific research question), discuss components of research that are particularly useful to your own study (along with a brief explanation of what is less relevant), and discuss how the particular study under review is unique from the research study that you are about to carry out. The body of your literature review must be organized by theme or method, or what makes sense to your particular project. To help you organize your notes, you have been provided with a literature review synthesis matrix. This tool will help you think critically about the overall flow of your literature review and should help highlight the key themes that are occurring across your topic area.
With respect to organizing a paragraph or two around a specific method, you might come to find within the literature that a study uses a method that would be of use to your research, but the topic under investigation has little relevance to your specific question. This is ok. For example if one were to carry out research which seeks to evaluate the success of a particular policy, you might find a few sources which carry out an assessment of a policy’s or organization’s effectiveness. Even though the policy or organization under review might have nothing to do with your research, you would discuss how the studies evaluation processes are of use to your research. The overall body of your literature review should be around 8-12 pages in length.
Use of Peer Reviewed Sources
A study is only as good as the sources that help back it up. In this regard it is important that the sources you pull from come from “peer-reviewed” material. “Peer-review” essentially means that prior to publication the article and contents have been properly vetted by subject matter experts.
Theoretical Framework
Students often ask where there theoretical framework should be discussed within their theses. The confusion often stems from the fact that the theoretical framework is provided with its own section within the formal “Research Proposal.” However, your thesis is different from your research proposal as it integrates some of the information you provided in your proposal into a more robust and scholarly piece. Since the theoretical information used within your thesis helps to serve as a foundation for answering your research question, its best to integrate it within your literature review. This way you will be able to discuss how your use of theory might differ from what scholars have already attempted on the topic.
Format
Much like the rest of your thesis, you may use subheadings (as has been done within this guide) to help you organize your literature review. Should you do so make sure that you are removing extra spaces between paragraphs and make them stand out using bold face type.
Conclusion
The conclusion of your literature review should summarize the primary “sense of the literature” and encapsulate where the existing research ends and where your study will start. This section should leave the reader with an understanding of the overall research gaps that your study aims to fill, and reiterate the overall importance of your work. The conclusion of your literature review should be around 2-3 pages in length.
References
On a separate page you will need to include your list of references completed in the Turabian “author-date” style.
The references should be in alphabetical order according to author last name. They should be single spaced, with one space between references, and should be formatted using the hanging indent style.
The only sources that should appear on this list are those that you have actually referenced within your literature review. These should include at least 25-30 sources, of which at least 15 or more are from peer reviewed material.
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