Scholarship entails comprehensive understanding of the historical and current treatment of the…

Scholarship entails comprehensive understanding of the historical and current treatment of the pertinent topic, and Chapter II consists of a comprehensive review of the literature pertaining to the topic of study. While completing your coursework and selecting your topic, you will have been reading, exploring, and thinking about what others have done in order to better understand the concepts and issues, and identify gaps in the research. In order to argue the legitimacy of the current study, you need to have a thorough understanding of what that study will add to the most current literature on the topic. You will need to critically analyze, synthesize, and integrate the literature such that the reader understands where the proposed study fits into the current debates and academic inquiries concerning the topic. Chapter II is thus a formal summary and analysis of the literature directly related to your particular study. It should consist of the following sections: *Introduction *Search Strategy *Literature Review *Summary In general, Chapter II is 22-30 pages long, but the exact length will be determined by the amount of existing published research. The literature review needs to be comprehensive, and it should show an overwhelming breadth and scope of knowledge on the related research topics.