Over the past ten days I have learned about literature reviews in general, examples of literature reviews, and how in my view it is anchoring piece that gives a foundation to a project. The article on Scholars Before Researchers cemented an outline and provided a set of tools for the researcher to assess other literature reviews and what is needed to create your own literature review. I took page of the article that supplied a rubric titled, “Literature Review and Scoring Rubric,” which was adapted from the following book publication:

Hart, C. (1999). Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. London: SAGE.

Moving forward, I used it to critique an article of my interest and found it quite rewarding, as it provided a snapshot on what worked in the article quite well, and how the article could have provided more depth. Working with peers, we were also able to make comparisons between 3 articles that had specific Project Based Learning (PBL) activities, since all of the group members had picked articles of interest with similar content. We made comparisons on PBL was placed in a historical context of the field, as outlined by our rubric and found varied results. It was a valuable activity to be part of as a learner. Being a novice, more experience will provide better insight on the difference between outstanding, mediocre, and poorly written literature reviews.