Samantha Roybal ENG3450

I received a ton of useful feedback on my literature review from Dr. B, and I plan to begin revising by applying this feedback. I also need to figure out how to condense my literature review. I am not quite sure about how I want to format my methods within the research proposal, so it makes it a bit difficult to determine what parts of the literature review I feel are most important to include in the proposal. In order to further revise and condense the literature review, I will first decide how to format my methods in the proposal. It seems a bit daunting at the moment to try to put 12-15 pages together, but once I put the pieces together it might seem less overwhelming. Each time I am able to establish one piece of the project...it leads to the completion of another. For now, I will work on applying feedback and establishing what information is significant enough to keep and use. 

There are a lot of gaps within my topic, so the main gap seems to be that there is a lack of information. My topic is the effectiveness of the design of instruction manuals. I struggled to find sources that pertained to only one area within this topic, but after meeting with Dr. B I was able to realize that taking "chunks and nuggets" from different sources would be quite interesting. This would provide different context from a variety of areas within my topic. Whether the instruction manual is educational or consumer related, the gap is the lack of research available when it comes to the rhetoric and self-efficacy of instruction manuals. By taking bits and pieces from all sorts of different sources I am able to fill the gap having to do with rhetoric and self-efficacy. Dr. B also helped me to examine different key words in my search for resources. By searching and looking in areas I had not previously thought of, I am able to fill the gap. This method also helps me to compar...