University of North Texas Renewable Energy Research

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Instructions

In preparation for writing your literature review, please give careful attention to the way in which you will organize your sources. Your literature review must contain at least 10 credible sources with appropriate citations in APA or MLA format (depending on your discipline). As you organize and synthesize your information, use citations and references appropriately. In all cases, remain true to the context of your sources, taking care not to misrepresent or quote out of context. This assignment must contain the following sections.

Introduction (Connection to Discipline and Explanation of the Issues)

Explain the issues and make a connection to your discipline. Introduce the topic with reference to your thesis or main question in the opening paragraph.

  • Describe the issue or problem clearly and with enough relevant information that your reader will fully understand it. Make connections between your topic and important theories/facts/examples from your discipline or area of study (e.g., psychology, history). The purpose of the literature review is not to answer your questions but to situate your topic within the wider literature on the subject matter.

Source Finding Analysis (Accessing Information and Evaluating Sources)

  • What databases did you use to find potential sources and why? (Reminder: Google and other search engines are not databases. Use the New Jersey State Library database resources.) What key word searches did you use, and which were most effective? What database or key word did you exclude from your search, and why? How did you make sure that your information sources were highly relevant?
  • Explain how you evaluated and selected sources to use for this project. How do you know your selected sources are appropriate to your research question? How do you know you have chosen a variety of sources that are appropriate for the scope of your project?
  • How did you make sure that you were fully complying with all ethical and legal restrictions on the use of published, confidential, and/or proprietary information?

Themes (Use Information Effectively to Accomplish a Specific Purpose)

  • Synthesize the information from your sources in order to help your reader fully understand your topic’s background and relevant issues. What main themes emerge in the literature on this topic? What do different sources have to say about these themes? What patterns, differences, or similarities emerge from the sources? What significant scholarly disagreements have you noticed? Provide your reader with a sufficient breadth of the topic under your themes or means of organizing your sources so that the reader can be aware of and acquainted with the topic’s background and relevant issues. Be sure to situate the topic within a larger context and draw out themes and key ideas.

Curiosity (Sources and Evidence)

  • What information have you found that illustrates both your interest and rich awareness of your topic? Why is this information so interesting? What ideas are you developing that are appropriate for your discipline?

Conclusion (Summary)

Finally, after you have completed the body of your review, provide a paragraph summary. What have you learned thus far?

Keep in mind, the literature review is not an extended annotated bibliography whereby you list each source you have read and provide a brief synopsis of it. Rather, the literature review is a running narrative that develops the background and context for your topic. Finally, additional research should continue to be done throughout the course until the final submission of the capstone project (which must include at least 15 sources in the final bibliography).

Submit Written Assignment 3 to your mentor for grading. Consult the Course Calendar for due dates.


Note: This assignment corresponds to or addresses the following Bachelor of Arts (BA) outcomes:

  • Students explain key terms, concepts, and theories in an area of study in the arts and sciences.
  • Students apply critical-thinking skills to problems in an area of study in the arts and sciences.
  • Students communicate effectively in written form.
  • Students apply research methods appropriate to the discipline.

Your work on this assignment should reflect your ability to:

  • Connect examples, facts, or theories from chosen area of study. [BA 1.2: Connection to discipline]
  • Explore a topic in-depth, yielding insight and/or information indicating interest in the subject. [BA 1.3: Curiosity]
  • Issue/problem to be considered critically is stated, described, and clarified so that understanding is not seriously impeded by omissions. [BA 2.3: Explanation of the issues]
  • Organize evidence to reveal important patterns, differences, or similarities related to focus. [BA 2.5: Analysis]
  • Consistently use credible, relevant sources to support ideas that are appropriate for the discipline and genre of the writing. [BA 3.4: Sources and evidence]
  • Access information using variety of search strategies and some relevant information sources. [BA 4.2: Access needed information]
  • Choose a variety of information sources appropriate to the scope and discipline of the research question; select sources using multiple criteria (such as relevance to the research question, currency, and authority.) [BA 4.3: Evaluate information and its sources critically]
  • Communicate, organize, and synthesize information from sources to successfully achieve the intended purpose. [BA 4.4: Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose]

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Running Head: RENEWABLE ENERGY

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Renewable Energy

Student’s Name
Institution’s Affiliation
Date

RENEWABLE ENERGY

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Literature Review
Introduction
Renewable energy has been campaigned for to help save the dying environment and
preserve lives. But even as dire as it sounds, research shows that so many people would rather
keep satisfying their economic greed instead of thinking what is ahead. How ignorance blinds
us from seeing the bigger picture still baffles me. Long & Steinberger (2018) posits that
renewable is one of the most efficient tools that we are using to fight global warming and if we
can keep at, there is no doubt that it will be a success. According to a New York Times'
publication on the 19th of July back in 2016 stated that these renewable sources of energy have
proven to be more economical compared to fossil fuels (Porter, 2016). If we can pay more close
attention to renewable energy sources, we might stand a chance of seeing the next century.
Source Finding Analysis
Most of the articles I shall review in this section were obtained from the New Jersey
State Library database resources and the ProQuest database. Besides, there were materials
obtained from the University of Michigan's Center for Sustainable Systems and the United
Kingdom's government collections of renewable energy planning data. These databases
provide a very diverse source of information that touches on researches conducted on a broader
range of the population. In my study, I mainly used the keywords' renewable energy,' 'climate
change,' and 'global warming.' From the results I got, I would then go ahead and sort out the
found articles settling for the ones that solely linked renewable energy to either the
conservation of the environment, how it impacts the economy and its impact on climate change
and global warming.

RENEWABLE ENERGY

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Themes
From the sources I decided to settle on, there were recurring themes on the need for us
to adjust to renewable energy free of exhausts. University of Michigan's Center for Sustainable
Systems reported on the patterns of use of unsustainable energy to give an insight into the
amount of damage we are doing by using them. In their report they said that the United States
relies on fossil fuels for 80% of energy. Nuclear energy covers 8.3% and renewable source.
Even with wind leading the race for renewable energy, it only provides 2.4% of the country's
energy ("U.S. renewable energy factsheet," n.d.).

Fig 1: United States' total energy consumption ("U.S. renewable energy factsheet," n.d.).
However, even as many nations fail to emphasize more on renewable energy, the U.K
has been planning to launch and improve several renewable energy sources ("Renewable
energy planning data," 2019). Th...


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