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WORKSHOP AGENDA
Literature review What and why
Searching and finding print and online sources
Evaluating sources for relevance and reliability
Reading critically
Writing and presenting literature review
Citing sources in text and reference list /
bibliography
Avoiding plagiarism
TRAINING METHODS
Lectures / presentations based on secondary
information
Question-answer / short assignments during lectures
Sharing of trainers personal experiences
PURPOSES OF LITERATURE
REVIEW
Define and limit problem
Develop familiarity with topic
Limit research to a subtopic within larger body of
knowledge
Place study in historical perspective
Analysis of way in which study relates to existing
knowledge
Avoid unintentional and unnecessary replication
Awareness of prior studies so as to avoid unneeded
replication
Replication is reasonable if it is needed to verify prior
results, investigate results that failed to be significant, or
relate problem to a specific site
PURPOSES OF LITERATURE
REVIEW
Select promising methods and measures
Knowledge of and insight into specific research designs
for investigating a problem
Awareness of specific instruments, sampling procedures,
and data analyses
Relate findings to previous knowledge and suggest future
research needs
Relating prior research to what is known places current
study in perspective
This knowledge allows researcher to focus problem on
what is not known
Develop research hypotheses
Suggestions for specific research hypotheses
Systematic review
Meta-analysis
Selective
WHEN WE NEED TO DO A
LITERATURE REVIEW
At the beginning of the research project
Proposal
Chapter 2, 1 & 3
THREE TYPES OF
LITERATURE