Practical Research Flashcards
RRL means
Review of Related Literature
APA
American Psychological Association
MLA
Modern Languages Association
Process of obtaining relevant and important information or materials to the research topic.
Literature Review
It involves the systematic identification, location and
analysis of documents containing the information
related to the topic.
Literature Review
It places the study in the context of all the available
information about the topic
Literature Review
It helps you to explain how the research problem to be
investigated fits into the larger picture.
Literature Review
It also gives the reader the updated discourses in the
discipline of your topic.
Literature Review
You identify what has already been done so as not to replicate other researchers works.
Literature Review
Importance of RRL
- It defines and refines the independent and dependent
variables.
He identified five steps in conducting a literature review
Creswell 2005
6 Steps in Doing the RRL
- Identify the Key Terms
- Locate the Literature
- Evaluate your selected Literature
- Organize your sources
- Writing the review
- Citing References
The key term.
Identify the Key Terms
Locating and retrieving the information you need.
Locate the Literature
Make sure that the journal where an article is reputable
Evaluate your selected Literature
Read the article thoroughly
Evaluate your selected Literature
The article for inclusion in your review must be relevant,
useful and related to your proposed study.
Evaluate your selected Literature
How many years of validity of a literature?
10 years
The literature to be included in the review must be updated in the field of your study.
Evaluate your selected literature
Rank the various sources you have gathered based on the degree of quality.
Evaluate your selected Literature
- It establishes the need, significance and justification in
conducting your study.
Importance of RRL
- It helps you gauge the feasibility of pursuing your topic.
Importance of RRL
- It provides a logical rationale for the research hypothesis.
Importance of RRL
- It leads you to potentially useful citations that might be
helpful in the development of your study
Importance of RRL
- It leads you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of previous investigations on your topic.
Importance of RRL
Group the literature according to nuances and particulars of
the study.
Organize your Sources
Identify major themes and patterns in the different
literature
Organize your sources
State the relationships among the different studies
Organize your sources
Identify gaps in the literature
Organize your sources
Summarize your sources by using a table matrix or
constructing a literature map.
Organize your sources
definition of key terms and concepts, research methods and
summary of finding per article
Table Metrix
Synthesize the literature before writing the review
Organize your sources
It has three main parts: Introduction, Body, and Conclusion
Writing the Review
What are the main three parts of RRL
Introduction, Body, and Conclusion
sets the stage for the review
Introduction
This is
where you give an overview, define important key words and
inform readers of the limitation of the review.
Introduction
Is the bulk of the review
Body
This is the part were
you lay out the groundwork and background information about
your topic.
Body
It contains the discussion on the similarities and
differences of findings from several articles and how they are
related to the present study.
Body
synthesis of the review summarizes the
trend and themes that you have observed as you describe the
findings from the different articles.
Conclusion
The 3 Citing References
APA, MLA, CMS
5 Parts of Research Paper
- Research Introduction
- Review of Literature
- Research Methodology
- Data Presentation
- Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendation
Is the process of obtaining participants of a study from a larger pool of potential participants called population.
Sampling
