Lesson 3: Review of the Literature

Question 1

This is the subject or subject matter of a study

Answer 1

Topic

Question 2

How do you gain insight into the topic?

Answer 2

1. Drafting a working title
2. Posing a brief question

Question 3

T/F
A topic can be researched even if ypou don’t have access to participants

Answer 3

False

Question 4

This Shares the results of other studies, relates the study to the larger dialogue in the literature, provides a framework for establishing the importance of the study, and provides a benchmark for comparing the results to other
findings

Answer 4

The literature review

Question 5

Why do we use literature review?

Answer 5

To seek opinion of adviser or faculty members, to tell the reader you are aware of literature

Question 6

In quantitative studies, researchers use literature to:

Answer 6

– Provide direction to the research questions and hypotheses
– Introduce a problem
– Introduce and describe the theory that will be used
– Examine the usefulness of the theory
– Compare results with existing literature or predictions

Question 7

Enumerate the steps in conducting a Literature review

Answer 7

• Identify key words
• Search databases
• Identify about 50 research reports in articles or books
• Collect those that are central to your topic
• Design a literature map
• Draft summaries of relevant articles
• Write a literature review, organizing it by important concepts

Question 8

T/F
If you are new to the topic that you are looking for, you can start with broad syntheses.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

This is a visual summmary of existing research on a topic

Answer 9

Literature Map

Question 10

This summarizes the major elements of the article

Answer 10

Abstracts

Question 11

This provides guidelines for producing scholarly work and include directions on citing references in-text, creating headings, etc.

Answer 11

Style Manuals

Question 12

T/F
Qualitative study is inductive and evolutionary in nature. the definition of term also appear early in the study

Answer 12

FALSE. It appears later in the study

Question 13

T/F
Quantitativr study is inductive with a fixed set of objectives. all of the relevant terms are comprehensively defined earlier in the study

Answer 13

False it is deductive

Question 14

T/F

it is ok to definne terms using everyday language, be guided by the literature. this is to make the reader understand the paper easily.

Answer 14

false.

Question 15

Discuss the quantitative or mixed methods literature review

Answer 15

• Introduce the review with a statement about the organization of the sections
• Review literature about the independent variables (T1)
• Review literature about the dependent variables (T2)
• Review literature that relates the independent variables to the dependent variables (T3)

Question 16

Discuss the quantitative or mixed methods literatre review

Answer 16

Provide a summary
– Highlight important studies
– Capture major themes
– Suggest why more research is needed
– Advance how the proposed study will fill this need