There is a great deal of current consternation about the size of the U.S. federal budget deficit and what to do about it.

Assignment Instructions

This week you are asked to write a critical literature review of between 7-9 pages covering the points below.

As you have seen in the lesson and your readings, there is a great deal of current consternation about the size of the U.S. federal budget deficit and what to do about it. Review the literature and, as you do so, make sure you cover the key arguments surrounding the issue. Draw your points from the scholarly literature dealing with past federal administrations as well as contemporary writings in current affairs. Then conclude with a section summarizing the literature you have reviewed that also develops your own argument for what you consider to be the best policy response you have reviewed and why. Include up-to-date statistics and other evidence you find in primary government (and other) sources to support your argument and ground your policy modifications.

Use at least 5 peer-reviewed journal articles and at least 10 other resources. You can draw some of these from your supplementary reading list and the links/references in the lesson. However, supplement these further with independent research, particularly government websites. Please cite all sources perfectly in APA style.

This site gives some extremely useful instruction hands-on on how to write a good literature review. You will find several short literature reviews here, broken down sentence-by-sentence with a clear explanation of exactly what each sentence is attempting to do/achieve in the review. It even highlights in bold text the kind of language and phrases you will find in all good literature reviews from Master’s level, to Ph.D. to journal articles. The journal articles you review will almost certainly also have a literature review section you can evaluate and emulate too. If you need more information on how to research for, compile structure, and write an excellent postgraduate-level literature review, you are almost guaranteed to find what you are looking for in this detailed guide. This assignment, and the research you do on literature review writing for it, will provide some excellent preparation for when you come to write your Capstone Thesis.

The criteria for evaluating this issue analysis is based on the Graduate Assignment Rubric, which can be found in the irubric icon.