Prepare an outline for the literature review. The instructions for this assignment are as follows:

Make a list of the different ideas that the authors present in their work. Organize the ideas and sources in such a way that you can build a discussion around the topic and different ideas presented.
•Organize the ideas and statements in categories. For example, if your topic is an organizational innovation to address a problem in an organization, you will first discuss the sources that describe your problem or problems similar to yours. You can then discuss how different authors have gone about solving the problem or issue you are addressing. If you are proposing a public policy change or innovation, the same principle applies.
•Discuss the pros and cons of the solutions presented. Build an argument in which you can discuss how well (or how poorly) the authors address your topic/problem.

•Present the outline as a Word document of no more than three pages.

What you should look for: your goal is to create a “mini-history” of what it is that the research (or literature) has to say about your topic. This is why it is especially important that you are using peer-reviewed articles primarily, with some support from other secondary sources-you want the most credible and up-to-date information on the topic that you can find. Among the items you should be looking for in the research:

Similarities between sources (what do all the sources have in common? What is accepted as “the gospel?”)
•Differences between sources (where do the sources/research differ from one another?)
•Important theories, ideas, etc.
•Events, key breakthroughs, etc that influenced the research.
•Gaps-is there anything missing in the research? Anything that researches may not have considered?

Once you have done this analysis, it is time to start your outline. An outline is a list of bullet points in which you describe the connections among the different sources you have identified in the annotated bibliography and how you plan for it to look when you eventually write the chapter (note: your literature review will become your future capstone’s Chapter 2, so take your time with this assignment-creating a strong outline will give you a strong tool to write from).