This assignment requires student to review the literature on the specific problem/issue area you will be tackling in your project management plan. For example, if you are preparing a project management plan that involves mitigating the effects of climate change on a small island state, then your literature review should engage with the scholarship on the effect of climate change on small island states and the varying options for intervention.
The literature review should NOT be a simply a descriptive list of researches. It should engage critically and analytically with the scholarship, meaning it could identify themes, different interpretative frameworks, policy recommendations, competing conclusions and possible explanations for the variance (i.e. was it a sampling issue, different methodologies, etc). You could also discuss which of the findings was more persuasive, backing your claims with evidence.
The review should be in narrative form and include a thesis statement in your introductory paragraph, laying out the main argument that you wish to present in the body of your text, followed by a conclusion. It also should include sub-headings that serve both as organizational cues for the writer, and as a roadmap for readers. For example, i.e. environmentalism as a collective action problem, environmentalism as a problem of capitalism, and so on.
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