Chapter 3 – Conducting a literature review. In this chapter students will be able to: Compare insights from various scholarly articles, develop a clear purpose statement and research questions, make a case for your purpose statement and research questions, take notes in a manner useful to conducting a literature review.
Trang 1Planning an Applied Research
ProjectChapter 3 – Conducting a Literature
Review
Trang 2» Compare insights from various scholarly articles
» Develop a clear purpose statement and research questions
» Make a case for your purpose statement and
research questions
» Take notes in a manner useful to conducting a literature review
Trang 4» Coherent essay synthesizing current scholarship
Trang 6» Review your research questions and purpose
statement
» Come up with key words and phrases that fit your purpose statement and research questions
» Search on your library website or using your local search engine to find articles
» Review the abstracts of the articles
» Save the ones that seem relevant
Trang 7» Save the articles (at least the references) during this part of the search
» Recognize that a wider net works better
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Trang 12What to Look for When Reading Articles
Trang 14» Use separate pages on your computer
Trang 16» Write early and often
Trang 17» Did they have an appropriate way of drawing those conclusions from the data they collected and the ways they were analyzed?
» Are there qualifications to the statements that they can make from their research?
» What qualifications should they have made?
» What limitations did they mention?
» What limitations did they fail to point out or other limitations you identified?
» What generalizations do they draw and can they
Trang 18» Written to provide future resource advice for scholars and
researchers
» Organized according to alphabetical names
Trang 19A An assessment, evaluation, critique of the
merits, validity, or usefulness of the source
˃ Summary and comments indented after the bibliographical citation and in single spaced format
Trang 20Effective and Interesting to Do
» Consider what aspects of the subject might be studied and what the investigators might have
found from their work
» Explore key authors in the article’s bibliography
» Investigate parallel organizations or situations.
» Play with words that might serve as search terms
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» One thing that surprised me to learn from this class
is …