In this assignment you will look for three pieces ...

In this assignment you will look for three pieces of publicly available published material to summarize. The published materials should be academic articles in journals. You may have to locate more than one and select the best ones. This assignment has two main parts: 1. a straightforward summary of each of the three documents, and 2. a framework for the summaries. The framework is a normal introductory paragraph and a concluding paragraph in which you briefly discuss the three documents together, perhaps linking the most important or interesting information you obtained from your three sources. You should decide which document you will summarize first, second, and third, and provide some logical link between the summaries--for example, mentioning that the next summary contains a different type of information from the last, or elaborates on the information from the last, or approaches the topic from a different perspective. Remember to include a thesis statement in the introduction that will make it clear what the point of this paper is with its three summaries. Your literature review should run from 300 to 350 words. You can also choose to write a longer LR which runs from 750 to 1000 words. If you do so, you will get 50% extra points of your LR. Adapted from Leki, I. (1998). Academic writing: Exploring processes and strategies, Second edition. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.