SOAN 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Jstor, Design Issues, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: David Walters

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Chapter 4: reviewing the scholarly literature and planning a study. You must first locate the relevant studies; next, read thoroughly to discover the major findings, central issues, and methods of the studies and take conscientious notes on what you read. You need to organize what you have learned and write clearly about the studies in a way that builds a context around a specific research question that is of interest to you. A literature review is based on the assumption that knowledge accumulate and that people learn from and build on what others have done. Scientific research is a collective effort of many researchers who share their results with one another and who purse knowledge as a community. 99% of scholarly journals are available in print form and about. 1/3 of these are also available in a full-text version over the.