• Evaluate the role that literature review has in planning research.

• Differentiate between the types/genres of literature reviews, their methodology, strengths, limitations, and sources of bias, and select the appropriate type of review.
• Distinguish between the types and levels of evidence/literature/publications and select the appropriate ones for review.
• Develop and apply the systematic literature-searching strategy and the protocol for evidence collection.
• Frame the proposed research theoretically and conceptually
• Reveal research, conceptual, and methodological gaps.
• Sharpen critical thinking skills while analyzing and appraising evidence.

• Synthesize the literature analysis results to inform your study's research questions, design, and framework.
• Submit the draft of the literature review for a dissertation proposal or Chapter 2 of the dissertation.

Introduce students to critical reading skills to support their ability to complete the readings and extract important topics and ideas. Have students practice critical reading skills: 1) identify key elements of a text, 2) reflect on how methods, structure, and presentation impact their reception of a text’s arguments, and 3) become more comfortable sharing their experiences with each other and considering how and why different people have different reactions to the same text. 

The student will apply practical critical reading skills to a variety of pre-sources in order to select, search, identify, and retrieve pertinent information sources.

The student will apply practical critical reading skills to Help Sheets in order to identify methods for searching, identifying, evaluating, and assessing pertinent information sources.

The student will apply practical critical reading skills to identify discipline specific terminology in order to find pertinent information sources.

The student will apply practical critical reading skills in order identify key contributors and writings in the psychology discipline

The student will apply practical critical reading skills in order to distinguish primary and secondary empirical research studies. 

The student will apply practical critical reading skills in order to determine source pertinence for an information need.

The student will apply practical critical reading skills in order to determine database (information resource) relevancy to an information need.