Conducting a Literature Review for Your Research Paper

For this unit’s Written Assignment, you will utilize the UoPeople library to find 2-3 sources for your own research paper. You will then create a 2-3 paragraph Literature Review based upon your own analysis and synthesis of those sources. You grade will primarily focus on the use of your own ideas to group together your sources for your own research paper. Your ability to create and give credit via APA In-Text Citations and a Reference page is also a focus. If you need an extra tip for this process, refer back to the University of Cumbria’s critical reading questions you have worked with in the past units.

The following composition is the elucidation of Virginia Woolf’s much adored essay “A Room of One’s Own”. The essay is in fact a chain of lectures delivered by Woolf in the year 1929 in Newham College of Cambridge University.  The lectures were delivered with an objective to establish the fact that a female writer, if she would want to become eminent, needs her own room and money for accomplished writing. The essay begins with an argument that the world of female novelists is somewhat narrow (Woolf, 2015). She argues that female novelists have always been enfeebled with the grotesque exercise performed by their counterparts.

Several instances are vividly portrayed through the lectures that pertain to the captivity of every female force that is likely to be emerging. Even John Milton could not escape from Woolf’s verbal inroad.  The essay is initially regarded as a feminist text (Bowlby, 2016). . However, Woolf has not focused, as she is known to have usually done, on targeting socially oppressed and deprived women. She claims a literary space for the women who would want to write. The nineteenth and the twentieth century literature has been predominantly a male domain in terms of social and politically enlightening writings. With the emergence of Wollstonecraft and the Bronte sisters, English literature found a new plinth to stand upon. A Room of One’s Own has validated the fact that female writer could create their own space and identity beyond the framed social prejudice regarding their “otherness”.