Summary
Determine the main idea of the piece you have read or viewed. Then write one sentence that captures that main idea. Note the major areas of evidence that the piece provides. Next write one sentence that communicates the gist of each of these major areas.
What is an effective summary?
a scholarly paper that presents the current knowledge including substantive findings as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Literature reviews are secondary sources and do not report new or original experimental work.
Literature Review
An enormous resource for a literature review assignment.
What is the library's database?
Be clearly linked to overall project goal and allow the target population to be identified.
What is a good research question?
A significant reduction of the orginal source.
What is summary?
Don’t attempt to cover everything written on your topic...You will need to pick out the research most relevant to the topic you are studying...You will use the studies in your literature review as “evidence” that your research question is an important one.
What is general guidelines to writing a literature review?
Do not develop an outline at this stage. Research first. Outline later.
What is step zero?
Helps guide what do you want to learn about.
What is writing a good research question?
The purpose of a summary is to share the main ideas of a text.
What is Summary?
Topical Order
Chronological Order
Problem-Cause-Solution Order
What is organizing your Literature Review?
Case study, qualitative interviews, quantitative survey and action-oriented research.
What are the four main types of research strategy?
The relationship between independent and dependent variables such that a change in an independent variable (predictor) will change the dependent variable (outcome) in a known way.
VS
Association between independent and dependent variables.
What is Causation vs. Correlation?
defends asserts features depicts identifies entertains confirms names considers offers judges contrasts
What is verb reference list for summary?
To help the reader understand the background to your study and see how it’s the next logical study to be conducted in this domain. In other words, you are arguing your point of why your study is important!
What is the significance of a Literature Review?
Needs to “Make sense,” Address an important and relevant issue, Not already have been done, Be “operationalizable (researchable),” and Be within a reasonable scope.
What makes a good research question?
“Well-crafted questions guide the systematic planning of research. Formulating your questions precisely enables you to design a study with a good chance of answering them.”
Light, Singer, Willett, By Design (1990)
What is "Why are research questions important?"
Identify the Item using books, stories, articles, or chapters. Include a title/author, summary verb, and the main idea.
What is "How to Plan Your Summary?"
Review isn’t focused on most important facets of the study. Not enough references or outdated references cited. Review reads like a series of disjointed summaries.
What are common mistakes made on a Literature Review?
Methods that allow you to answer your esearch questions.
What is research methodology?
Must provide coherent, explicit chain of reasoning.
What is reasoning?