Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Photocopier
25 Apr 2018
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Reading literature helps narrow down a broad topic, gives you a model of how narrowly focused a research question should be, what kinds of designs others have used, and how the parts of the study fit together. Informs you about the state of knowledge on a topic. Offers an example of what a final report study looks like. General literature review: a carefully crafted summary of the recent studies conducted on a topic. When beginning a review a researcher decides on a topic, how much depth to go into, and the kind of review to conduct. Books, periodicals, dissertations, government documents, policy reports. Tart (cid:455)our sear(cid:272)h i(cid:374) the li(cid:271)rar(cid:455)"s ele(cid:272)tro(cid:374)i(cid:272) (cid:272)atalogue. Searching keywords a selection of words relevant to your research topic will provide books related to the topic. Two types of books contain collections of articles: readers original research reports, second type designed to for scholars and may gather journal articles or contain original research/theoretical essays.
