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Literature Review

Literature Review. Synthesis of the Literature. Criteria used for selecting the literature Strategies used to locate sources Limits of the review Themes The main topical areas emerging from your P 1 , P 2 , and Q Logical flow between themes. Synthesis: Themes.

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Literature Review

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  1. Literature Review

  2. Synthesis of the Literature • Criteria used for selecting the literature • Strategies used to locate sources • Limits of the review • Themes • The main topical areas emerging from your P1, P2, and Q • Logical flow between themes

  3. Synthesis: Themes • Clarifies and extends the context of the Problem • Where does it apply, under what circumstances? • Describes the current understanding of the Problem • Interpretive summary of the current state of knowledge

  4. Themes (cont.) • Reviews of previous research, findings, and opinions • Explain specific research studies • What theoretical framework can be pieced together? • Review and organize methodologies used

  5. Evaluation of the Literature • Concluding section • Summarize the review • Discuss overall weakness and strengths • Point to gaps and saturation areas • Direction of further inquiry • Which ought to support your study

  6. Summary • Salient themes • Key research • Gaps, new knowledge, new practice needed • PPQ

  7. The Literature Review is: • Map—plans your direction • Synthesis—shows what’s been done • Cornerstone—lays the foundation for your PPQ • Blueprint—tells you where to begin • Menu—guides your selection of subjects, instruments & data analysis

  8. ...Review is: • Flagger—avoid this or that route; stop trivial or not feasible • Heart—central, critical, substantive, thorough, current

  9. Guidelines • Start broad • Historical, theoretical, philosophical • Deductive--Go from least to most related • End with PPQ, i.e., without knowing it, I should be able to deduce PPQ

  10. End when… • Further searches add no substantively new knowledge • You feel expertise • You can support Ch 1 and justify Ch 3 • Your advisor says “Enough already”

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