Explain how your research project would benefit by the construction of a theory or theories and how this will help improve the quality of your work.

Explain how your research project would benefit by the construction of a theory or theories and how this will help improve the quality of your work.

Begin testing your theories or solutions.

Create an abridged literature review on your topic. The purpose of this is activity to integrate and synthesize the major and foundational literature on your topic from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Writing a review of the literature requires more than just listing and summarizing studies that relate to the paper. Your abridged literature review should be approximately 3 pages in length and describe the key theories and findings related to the study topic. Ideally, the majority of work cited should be published within the last 5 years (with the exception of foundational literature).