Lecture 5: Research Questions and Study Purposes 2

Question 1

what type of process is research?

Answer 1

creative procsess

Question 2

what is a systematic review?

Answer 2

adheres to a process to which you have gone through the literature to decide what papers are important to you to help you understand what you are interested in
- also following a strict set of steps

Question 3

what is a meta-analysis?

Answer 3

a systematic method that uses statistics to analyze the data from numerous studies
- type of systematic review
- combine the data from studies with similar data types and analyze them as a single, expanded dataset
- a paper that analyzes many papers to provide a summary and quantitative evidence

Question 4

what are the three phases of how to conduct the narrative literature review?

Answer 4

1. find source of information
2. critical literature review (looking at papers to see how relevant they are to your paper to see if you should include it) (also takes a look at papers that do not agree with you and figure out why they do not agree with you, maybe change your mind)
3. synthesizing - writing the literature review, including the bibliographic details

Question 5

what can be used at sources of information?

Answer 5

books, scholarly journals, newspapers and magazines, internet and experts’ opinions

Question 6

what are some tips to reading research?

Answer 6

• get familiar with a small number of important publications
• do not get weighed down by peripheral research
• read the articles to capture the “big picture”
• the abstract is an excellent starting point
• do not get overwhelmed with statistical analyses
• pay attention to the discussion

Question 7

what is methodology

Answer 7

process you engage in to collect data

Question 8

what are the key elements of a scientific article?

Answer 8

• abstract
• background (introduction)
• methods (measuring you will be taking to analyze)
• results
• limitations / conclusion (key takeaway)

Question 9

what are two of the ways you can organize literature?

Answer 9

• create a map
• create a summary chart

Question 10

what is the outline for writing the literature review?

Answer 10

• introduction
• body
• conclusion