Scope of the Problem This section introduces your reader to the topic and includes key definitions and prevalence/incidence stats. Try to use national (or international) unbiased sources as much as possible. These sources are usually not peer-reviewed, empirical articles.
What Do We Know This section describes the state of the literature. (This section will be the longest section of your paper.) Use the themes you have identified as subheadings. Remember that you want at least two articles included in each theme. You will cite all 12 of your peer-reviewed, empirical articles in this section. Make sure you are citing the key findings of the article. (DO NOT cite information from the articles literature review.) Make sure that you are synthesizing and integrating the literature; you want the content to drive the organization of this section of the paper. (In other words, DO NOT create serial summary paragraphs.)
Strengths and Limitations This section includes a summary (1-2 paragraphs) of the strengths and limitations of this literature as a whole. Review the sampling column on your summary table, and identify the strengths and limitations across all of the articles that relate to sampling. Review the measurement column on your summary table, and identify the strengths and limitations across all of the articles that relate to measurement. If you have interventions, review the intervention column on your summary table, and identify the strengths and limitations across all of the articles that relate to intervention.
Priority Areas for Future Research This section includes a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) of where you think the research should go next. This should build directly on the strengths and limitations you presented in the prior section.
