Noise Pollution; In Urban Areas

Description

– The main topic is Environmental Noise Pollution; Urban Areas
– *Please refer “Literature Review Assignment” Document for how this paper should be conducted. Also, there is a grading rubric please make sure everything is all 4 (the highest possible grade).

– 1) Structure: Papers that are well structured are more convincing to the reader. Outlining the paper before you start writing is a helpful way to come up with a good structure.
• Start with a brief introduction (~1 page) that explains the research topic in general, highlighting its importance to the field, while creating interest in the reader. For example, is there an ongoing debate or conflicting results that are driving the research in this area?
• Introduce the reader to the general topic area of the research paper: The introduction should inform the reader about the research topic. For this literature review I suggest an introduction of one page or less. Be concise and clear. The goal is to convince the reader that the research is interesting, timely, and important. Your audience is an academic researcher in your field of study, so you need to consider what would be interesting and important in that context.
• The purpose of this literature review is to explore and analyze the research design choices that can shape both your hypothesis and how you would conduct your research. You are not conducting the actual research, but instead you are reviewing previous studies to compare and contrast the various ways researchers have studied the topic.
• The literature is a comparative analysis of the process of conceptualization and operationalization that previous researchers have used to study the topic. This is not an annotated bibliography. Do not describe each paper in isolation. Instead organize your paper around the key constructs, the definitions and variables used, and the data collection processes employed.

– 2) Sources: “articles must be empirical and quantitative in nature. You will need to read many sources and choose only the most relevant ones to include. Empirical papers collect data, analyze data, and interpret the data to provide a logical explanation for an observed pattern.”

– 3) Citations: Use the Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date Citation Style) for all in-text citations and bibliography references. This is the citation format required by the American Political Science Association, and a quick reference guide can be found at
• https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html.

– Possible useful links towards Environmental Noise Pollution:
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068638/
• https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/12/londons-tube-is-worryingly-noisy
• https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/environment_committee_-_tube_noise_issues_-_summary.pdf