Edwin Iron

Dear Edwin,

Thank you for your questions. Please find my responses under each of your question.

Have a good night.

On February 2, 2026 at 7:07 PM, Edwin Iron wrote:

Dear Lan,

I hope youre doing well. Im currently working on my literature review and wanted to ask a few questions to make sure Im on the right track.

Could you please advise me on the key topics or themes I should focus on? Also, are there specific sources or study types you recommend including? Id appreciate guidance on how detailed the review should be whether I should mainly critically analyze the studies.

It is a bit hard for me to suggest any specific topic for your literature review. So please think of any topic that you are interested or you have some experience and you want to learn more about it. It may be something about mental health issue among youth, services for Indigenous people with disabilities, Accessibility to education among Indigenous children, poverty , ect. There are many topics that you can pick one you want to know more

Could you let me know the preferred structure or format for the literature review and how many sources you expect me to cover? Any tips on organizing and connecting the studies effectively would also be very helpful.

For a literature review, the structure is would be: 1. introduction about the research problem that you want to analyse in your literature, then depending on h materials you collected and make different themes for analysis, for example if it is the case of service for indigenous people with disabilities in Meadow Lake, you then will discuss about the situation of this group, their needs, their difficulties, and the current services system and any challenges that this group have to overcome, or/any influential factors to the accessibility to service. Then you find some gaps that the current research/literature does not mention, these gaps will give you suggestion for further research. For the required reference, in the instruction, it says you need at least 5 references.

Thank you for your time and support.

Best regards,

Edwin Iron

Assignment 2 – Literature Review 35%

Due Date: February 27th, 2026 at 11:59 p.m.

Length: 6-8 pages double-spaced using APA 7th ed. format with at least 5 additional references. References may include: peer-reviewed literature, academic sources, and course texts.

Description & Rationale:

The second part of this assignment requires students to build upon their shared annotations to create a literature review similar to what would be found in a research article. Students, grouped according to their chosen topic, will share their annotated bibliographies with one another. Using this information students will then individually write their literature review following the instructions provided on UR Courses.

Instructions:

Step 1: find and meet with your group

Find and meet with your group members who share the same research topic. For example, topic about mental health, food security, substance abuse, etc. The purpose of the activity is to support each other in building a good bibliography for all the members in the group.

In case you cannot find a group, you will work on your own

Step 2: Searching for relevant peer-review/academic articles

As a member of your group, you work on your individual basis to conduct searching for peer-review/academic articles related to the topic by using searching tools:

Literature from:

o Academic databases (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar)

o Keywords and Boolean operators

o Inclusion and exclusion criteria()

If you do not have a group, you work on your own

Step 3: Making short annotated bibliographies

After your search of relevant sources, make short annotated bibliographies (focus, method used, key findings, etc.)

For example:

Hart, M. A. (2010). Indigenous worldviews, knowledge, and research: The development of an Indigenous research paradigm.Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 1(1A). 1-16.

+ Focus: Harts (2010) article focuses on establishing anIndigenous research paradigm by defining its core componentsontology, epistemology, axiology, and methodologygrounded in Indigenous worldviews. It critiques the dominance of Western, Eurocentric perspectives that marginalize Indigenous ways of knowing. The work emphasizes a relational, community-based approach, exploring how Indigenous knowledge can be applied in social work and research, often highlighting experiences with Cree and Anishinaabe Elders

+ Method: focuses on developing an Indigenous research paradigm grounded in Indigenous worldviews, knowledge systems, and the values of respect, reciprocity, responsibility, and relationality

+ The key findings: emphasize a holistic, spirituality-rooted framework comprising ontology, epistemology, axiology, and methodologyspecifically highlighting the importance of connection to community, nature, ancestors, and storytelling in research

Share your own bibliographies with your group so that everyone can access. Youre your group can have one shared document that includes all annotations, even if some sources are duplicated.

Step 4: Write Your Individual Literature Review

Although you worked as a group to gather sources, each student writes their own paper.

Your literature review should:

1. Introduce the topic and explain its importance

2. Organize the literature by themes or trends (not article-by-article)

3. Compare and critically analyze the studies

4. Highlight strengths and limitations in the research

Step 5: Identify a Research Gap in your literature review

After reviewing the literature, ask yourself:

What is missing from current research?

Who is underrepresented?

What questions remain unanswered?

What methodological limitations exist?

Provide recommendations for future studies that could address the identified gap(s). Be specific and realistic.

Suggested Paper Structure

1. Introduction: Present the topic and purpose of the review

2. Overview of the Literature: Discuss major themes and findings

3. Critical Analysis: Compare studies and identify limitations

4. Research Gap: Explain what is missing

5. Future Directions: Suggest areas for further research

6. Conclusion: Summarize key insights

You can see the following reference: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/conducting_research/writing_a_literature_review.html