HDF475

Hey all, message from Liane

There is an assignment going around for HDF475 right now in which students need to find a literature review from a specific list of sources. Some of the students don't seem to fully understand the assignment - they think they need to write a lit review on an article, but they need to write a paragraph on a lit review. They have the list of suggested resources from their professor, but in case they can't find it:

• The most recent Decade Review issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family (Volume 72, Issue 3)
• Handbook of Parenting, 2nd Edition from 2002, edited by Marc Bornstein
• Handbook of Child Psychology, 6th Edition from 2006, edited by William Damon and Richard Lerner
• Handbook of Adolescent Psychology, 3rd Edition from 2009, edited by Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg
• Handbook of Infant Development, 2004, edited by J. Bremner and Theodore Wachs

I have encouraged them to go to their professor if they need clarification on the assignment, but as it reads, it seems that they should identify a subject of interest, read a lit review on the subject, and identify lacunae in the body of work. They will write a paragraph about what's missing for this assignment and eventually end up writing a research paper on that topic.