Research Question: Can private companies or nation-states can legally stake ownership of the moon outside the purview of various U.N. treaties and the Artemis Accords?
You must produce a 14–16-page literature review, based
upon your dependent variable/research question from Week Two and Week Four.
The lit review must be grounded in prominent peer-reviewed work on your
particular dependent variable/research question. The paper must
illustrate why your research question is meaningful and theoretically
significant. To do this, you must provide reader with a strong sense of
the state of the established literature in their chosen sub-field and must
identify areas where they can make a substantial contribution to existing
theory and scholarly discourse.
Start by briefly introducing your topic (examining whether private companies or nation-states can legally stake ownership of the moon outside the purview of various U.N. treaties and the Artemis Accords), providing
your research question, and specifying your dependent variable. This should all be accomplished on page one
of your lit review. Then, identify the
peer-reviewed sources which represent the most prominent work done to date on
your particular question. Describe key information from your
reviewed sources in a manner that clearly connects to your specific research
problem and helps you conceptualize how you will eventually study/tackle your
problem. Steer away from describing this
relevancy in general terms. Instead,
describe the specific contribution the author(s) makes to ongoing scholarly
conversations. Speaking of
conversations, a good literature review will put scholars into discussion with
one another. Use these conversations to
illuminate how the key findings, research designs/methods and
strengths/weaknesses of arguments and research approaches.
Finally, a good
literature review will move seamlessly from this in-depth discussion of specific
contributions/gaps up to the macro level, where the reader is provided with a
sense of key advancements/setbacks and themes running throughout an entire body
of literature. It takes practice and
skill to effortlessly move your reader from specific contributions to a broad
assessment of the state of an entire body of literature