To Research and synthesize knowledge

Literature Review: This assignment will allow you to begin researching the topic area in that you would like to propose a qualitative study. You will learn to research and synthesize knowledge in this area. This will help you begin to understand what research questions are in need of answering in this area to inform your research proposal and final research plan. Your literature review must:

-Analyze 3 academic journal articles that use o_nly qualitative methods (i.e. do not use articles that have mixed methods that include a quantitative approach) -Briefly summarize each article -Describe the qualitative methods used and the ways these methods were analyzed

-Bring together all 3 articles to discuss what they tell us about the understanding of this topic area (e.g. what is known, what is unknown) -Explain how these articles will be relevant to your own research design in this class The assignment must be: -750- 1000 words in length (plus bibliography)

-Double spaced -Times New Roman font -Use APA citation style for intext citations and bibliography hflps://apastyle.apa.org/ -Be submitted as a word file (not PDF or pages) on BrightSpace