#3 Reading the Literature Review

The literature review, “Use of Blogs as a Source of News Presents Little Threats to Mainline News Media” from the “Newspaper Research Journal” describes people’s blog use for obtaining news. It explains a few studies pertaining to the topic and the results and statistics found from these studies. The literature review provides information from studies completed by ComScore Networks, the Pew Foundation and UMBC Ebiquity Research, as well as a Gallup poll. The structure of this literature review differs from the article I used for the Anatomy of a Journal Article assignment. While the journal article groups similar information in paragraphs, the literature review uses a cause and effect structure or organization. The literature review lays out the information that is to be explained further in the critical paper of the research project, but the journal article has very detailed information throughout its body. A literature review is different from papers I have written in the past because they analyze and evaluate the information in conjunction with summarizing it. Papers I have written in the past have dealt with a lot of summarizing opposed to analyzing and evaluating the information provided by the sources. A literature review might be useful as support for a project proposal because it lays out the information to be further detailed in the scholarly paper and serves as a place to introduce previous research on the topic.

Hargrove, Thomas, and Guido H. Stempel III, “Use of Blogs as a Source of News Presents Little Threats to Mainline News Media.” Newspaper Research Journal, 28.1 (2007): 99-102. Web. Feb. 2010.