Requirements from your syllabus

The final draft should begin with a clear and detailed explication of your research puzzle and why it is important. A review of the relevant literature should extract from the annotated bibliography (Part I) the major themes in the relevant literature and what each author has to say about each theme. This should be followed with your own theoretically grounded analysis of the research question: a logically coherent theoretical explanation for the research question. It should be grounded in existing theory and provide some answers to the question of how do we explain the phenomenon under investigation and what questions remain to be addressed in the existing literature on that topic. For the final draft, you may use books, book chapters, or other source in addition to academic journal articles. It should NOT be just more article summaries.