Freewrite #3 - Reading the Literature Review

The Literature Review I read recently related to the topic I wrote about for my Draft Literature Review assignment, autism. It covered quite a few more article references than mine did, and was rather long and thorough. The subject material was organized both methodologically and chronologically to give a picture of how studies progressed over the years. It was quite different in structure and content from the article I used for my Anatomy of a Journal Article assignment. In that case, the article reflected one study and was highly technical in content. I’d have to say that the Literature Review is not that dissimilar from other research papers I’ve written in the past, except for the strictly methodological organization and the number of required sources. I found it quite a bit more work to review so many technical articles and then write about them in a way that extracted only the most important details. It was definitely a challenge!