Question
Opening a grocery store in a food desert(urban area)
Writing Assignment #2
Synthesis Literature Review
Assignment Summary
You must gather research
sources for the topic you chose and presented in WA #1, the Proposal Memo.
Using these research sources, you must compose a Literature Review that Synthesizes
what your sources say about your topic. Your Synthesis Literature Review should
be at least 1000 words long and use at least seven (7) sources.
How Your Synthesis Literature
Review (WA #2) relates to the Proposal Memo (WA #1) and the Research Report (WA
#4)
The Synthesis Literature Review
is the “middle step” in the sequence of assignments in WRTG 394. In the Proposal
Memo, WA #1, you chose your topic by identifying a problem in your workplace or
community (neighborhood) and proposing one or more possible solutions. In the Synthesis
Literature Review, WA #2, you will write a paper that looks at what your
sources say about your topic and reports that information to readers discussing
how sources agree, disagree, add to each other’s work, and diverge from your
topic (this is what is called synthesis – you synthesize – bring together by
showing relationships between – your sources in relation to their themes and
your topic). This kind of reporting on and reviewing your sources will help you
understand the sources you have found better and help you do a better job of
using them to identify your problem and offer one or more possible solutions in
the Research Report, WA #3.
What You Must Provide for WA
#2, the Synthesis Literature Review
Your review has a clear thesis
that explains to readers that you will report on and review the sources you
have gathered based on themes you have identified in those sources.
Your review uses headings for
every section (see below for a template).In each section that discusses a theme
you have identified in the sources, you report what each source has to say
about the theme and discuss how sources agree, disagree, add to each other’s
work on the theme, and where any sources diverge from other sources in exploring
the theme.
Your review meets word length
requirements and follows correct business style.Your review uses American
Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition citation style for citing sources
within the text of your paper and in providing a reference page.
A Helpful Template for
Structuring Your Synthesis Literature Review.For this assignment you will want
to follow an assignment template (a template is a frame or format that you will
use for completing your memo. Such templates are common in business writing).
Note: Please adapt the format presented
below, adapting the headers provided, for the synthesis literature review. Be
aware that you should identify 2-5 themes within your research sources
concerning the topic you are researching. Not all sources will have information
about all the themes you identify. For a successful review, you should only
discuss themes which you find in at least two (2) sources.
Introduction
In this section of your
review, you introduce your topic, mention why it’s important, and present a
thesis statement that identifies the themes you have discovered in your
sources’ treatment of the topic.
Theme I ;Report what your
sources say about the theme and then discuss how they agree, disagree, add to
each other’s work, or diverge from the theme.
Theme I;IReport what your
sources say about the theme and then discuss how they agree, disagree, add to
each other’s work, or diverge from the theme.
Theme III;Report what your
sources say about the theme and then discuss how they agree, disagree, add to
each other’s work, or diverge from the theme.
(You may find that you have as
many as five themes to discuss in your review. Three is an average number.)
Conclusion;In this final section of your review, you remind readers of the themes you have identified and discussed and summarize what your discussion of the themes has been. You might take the opportunity to mention that you have demonstrated why your topic is an important one that needs to be researched and written about.
Expert Solution
Areas with little availability
of wholesome food, or Food deserts, have become a significant problem in
cities. The importance of strategies to reduce food deserts is highlighted by
the potential for grocery store interventions in urban food deserts to reduce
food poverty, promote local economies, advance social justice and equality,
increase community resilience, influence the environment, and improve health
and well-being. Food security, the role of dollar shops, eating patterns, the
general consumer nutrition environment, the problems with small-town food
deserts, and the correlates of healthy eating in urban food desert regions are
all influenced significantly by grocery stores.
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