M4 | Assignment | Project, Part 4: Literature Review

Research Question: How do sexual behaviors, partner concurrency, and prevention practices among African American men who have sex with men (MSM) influence HIV transmission patterns and subsequent risk to female partners?

Instructions

1. Literature Exploration: Start by exploring a wide range of literature related to your topic. Utilize academic databases, journals, and credible online sources to gather a diverse array of materials. Use the attached template to help you organize your readings and use a new row for every article.
2. Reading and Analysis: Read the collected literature thoroughly. Pay close attention to study designs, methodologies, findings, and discussions. Be critical in your analysis, noting strengths, weaknesses and any biases in the research.
3. .Summarization: Summarize each piece of literature(should be a total of 6 each), Focus on key points relevant to your topic and potential research question. Keep track of recurring themes, significant findings and differing viewpoints.
4. Identification of Gaps and Trends: As you summarize, identify any gaps in the research, emerging trends and areas of contention or debate. These insights are crucial in understanding how your research could contribute.
5. Refinement of Your Research Question: Use the insights gained from your literature review to refine your research question. Ensure that it addresses a specific gap or emerging area of interest in the field.
6. Documentation: Compile your summaries, analyses and findings into a coherent document. This should reflect not only your understanding of the literature but also how it informs and shapes your proposed research question.
7. Reflection and Revision: Reflect on the process, and revise your document for clarity, coherence and alignment with your research objectives. Ensure that your literature review logically supports the formulation and necessity of your research question.

Requirements

• Your assignment should be no more than 3000 words in length (250500 words per reference).
• Your assignment should be double-spaced with 1-inch margins all around and 12-point Times New Roman font.
• Include at least 6 citations. Put them all on one word document and separate them with headings/labels.

**feel free to review the first 3 parts of the project in the attachments for reference.