1. Building Sub-Topics for Literature Review
Creating an Outline
Building Sub-Topics for Literature Review

2. Web Diagram to Identify Multiple Perspectives
Creating Subtopics
Web Diagram to Identify Multiple Perspectives

3. Literature Review: Deductive Reasoning Attempting to Prove Academic
Statement, Theory, or Hypothesis
Academic
Paper
Deductive Reasoning
Attempting to Prove
Body of Knowledge
Information to back hypothesis
Study is justified due to BOK

4. Literature Review: Inductive Reasoning Attempting to Answer Academic
Open-Ended
Research Question
Academic
Paper
Inductive Reasoning
Attempting to Answer
Body of Knowledge lacking answer
Research Question justified due to absence

5. What type of reasoning will you use? Why?

6. Subtopics in your Literature Review

7. Subtopics in your Literature Review
Multiple perspectives that build to support your own research question/statement
AND
Educate your audience prior to your own research method

8. Deductive Example:
Research Question: Which color skittle has the most flavor?
Research Statement:
13-18 year olds think that red skittles have the most flavor.
Subtopics:
Flavors of each Skittle
Skittle definition and exposure to skittles in popular culture
Chemistry of Skittle Flavor Creation
Ingredients diversity based on color
Physical Mechanics of Taste
How taste works in the human mouth
How smell influences taste
Influence of age in tasting different flavors (sweet, salty, sour, bitter, etc.)
Arrival at justification for research topic

9. Inductive Example:
Research Question: What are the differences in emotional response of an year old and year old individual receiving a single package of Skittles versus the share size package?
Subtopics:
Definitions: Differences in Packaging
14 oz single package
41 oz share size package
Influence of Quantity on Emotional Response
Include previous studies that study emotional response to quantity
Age group Discussion (Educate Audience)
Behavior and External Influences of year olds
Behavior and External Influences year olds
Arrival of Justification to tie all subtopics together to answer a research question

10. Creating a
Web Diagram

11. Draw a circle in the middle of your paper.
(Large enough for two sentences...)

12. Write down your research question.
Do you have a research statement/theory/hypothesis
that should follow that question?

13. Create the subtopics of your research question.
These should branch away from your main RQ.
Educate your audience from
all angles/perspectives of your topic.

14. Subtopics will lead to specific pieces of information that need to be shared with your audience.
Detail
Detail
Sub RQ
Detail

15. Adding Details to Subtopics
Bolstering Subtopics with Evidence from Breadth of Knowledge (BOK)

16. Subtopics will lead to specific pieces of information that need to be shared with your audience.
Detail
Detail
Sub RQ
Detail

17. The details that you add to each subtopic should be cited from your BOK.RQ
Sub
Detail
Detail
Sub
Detail
Detail
Detail
Detail
BOK: Body of Knowledge

18. Creating an Effective Outline
Putting it all in order...
Creating an Effective Outline

19. Where you are... Detail Detail Detail Detail Sub Detail Detail Sub RQ
BOK: Body of Knowledge

20. How should you organize your information?
Main Topic
Subtopic
Detail with Evidence
...
Where you need to be…
How should you organize your information?

21. Goal: Educate and then justify
Put your subtopics in order
Introduction to Topic
Academic Paper
Literature Review
Definitions or Details for
Audience Understanding
BOK Connection and
Multiple Perspectives
Preparing to Justify RQ/RS
Justification of RQ due to BOK