Ch 3

Creating a valid set of inclusion and exclusion criteria for a literature review is one of the easiest parts of the process. Secondary researchers rarely use trial and error to establish their final inclusion/exclusion criteria.

False

The act of presenting another person's work as being one's own or insufficiently acknowledging and identifying the sources from which one has drawn while writing is known as ________.

plagiarism

The best advice for knowing when you have collected enough sources for your literature review is to:

Look for repetitive patterns in the materials you are finding and reading.

A well-structured literature review:

begins with broad/general information, then narrows the focus to those studies most closely related to the research problem.

Typically, the literature review should:

emphasize how the studies being reviewed are related to the research problem under consideration.

A well-written literature review

emphasizes critique and synthesis of the work of others that is related to your own research problem.

A cooperative agreement between libraries to exchange resources known as ________ allows you to access books or journal articles that may not be available at your academic institution

interlibrary loan

microform

microfilm, microfiche "periodicals in electronic form

Direct quotations from other people's writing should ________.

minimally used in your literature review

While reading articles published in refereed journals about her research topic, Georgia repeatedly comes across references to a series of studies by one particular researcher. She's unable to find those references in the collections of her university library. Her best plan of action would be to:

put in a request through the library loan program.

Many online documents posted since the year 2000 have a unique, permanent number that enables others to find a document again even if its location on the Internet has changed. This number is known as a ________.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

When you document the data extracted during the literature review data collection process, you should document enough details so that another researcher could arrive at generally your same results by following your recorded procedure.

True

With a few modifications, what a researcher knows about conducting primary research applies to conducting secondary research (i.e., a literature review). Otherwise stated, the stages for conducting and reporting a literature review parallel the process for conducting primary research.

True

The best way to organize a review of the literature is:

Thematically, with an emphasis on how the literature relates to your question.

A substantive, thorough, sophisticated literature review is a precondition for doing substantive, thorough, sophisticated research.

True

A systematic literature review includes literature review questions while primary research includes empirical research questions.

True

As in primary research, the secondary data research must devise a systematic data collection plan and accurately document the data collection process.

True

Conducting a good literature review is necessary but not sufficient for conducting good research.

True

Doctoral students must be scholars before they are researchers.

True

Literature review can help you...

reveal data, address subproblems and previous research, new ideas, controversial issues, methods, sources, interpretation, your confidence

Whenever you find a potentially useful source of information, you should record enough information to ensure that:

you can track it down later and future readers of your research can find it for themselves.