#3 Reading the Literature Review

The literature review discussed published information about stretching and injury prevention. The author found a lot of different case studies that said similar things and combined them into one paper. The author also found case studies that disagreed with the other case studies and argued both sides of the argument. The article used for the Anatomy of a Journal Article was an article I found to support my side of the argument. The literature review summarized and synthesized the arguments of other people, whether it supported my argument or not. The paper I read was organized like an abstract. It had objectives, data sources, study selection, data extraction, main results, and conclusion. After that, there was a commentary written. This is different from the case studies I have read in the past because the ones that I read usually have the abstract of the paper, and the actual experiment mapped out well enough that if someone else wanted to do that experiment, they could. Then, the author writes the results and conclusion on the experiment they performed. The literature review was just a summary of case studies, and then a commentary written about the subject. A literature review is a good source for a research proposal because it shows both sides of the argument and a opinion so it can help you with which side of the argument you want to write about.