Instruction
Part 1:
Module 2: Guided practice -- Selecting a Research Problem and Writing a Literature Review
Steps to a successful literature review:
This assignment will serve as practice for your final project. The basic steps you use to complete this assignment will guide you in the development of a full literature review. In other words, please use this prompt to finish the literature review for your proposal (the final assignment). Remember that the literature review helps your reader understand why you are making this proposal and gives evidence of what other researchers have done regarding the topic you have chosen.
The following instructions will guide you through this practice for the complete literature review. Follow the instructions and post the assignment to the discussion board. Don't forget to respond to your classmates' postings after you have submitted.
Then, you can use this guided practice to continue to work on your literature review. This completely developed literature review will support your decision to research your topic in your final paper.
Submission Instructions:
First, write 1-2 sentences describing your research problem (See Creswell and Guetterman, Chapter 2). Then, use the six steps below to plan your literature review (See Creswell and Guetterman, Chapter 3).
Identify key terms.
What are the key terms you will use for your search?
2. Locate literature.
Where have you looked? The Barry library? Google Scholar?
3. Evaluate and select literature.
List (in APA format) three reference entries for research article that you have found that support your literature review.
4. Organize the literature.
In what order would you present this information and why?
5. Synthesize the literature.
Write a short paragraph that synthesizes the three above-mentioned articles.
6. Save this paragraph as a piece of your literature review.
Part 2: Quiz 2,3 and Library quiz
Sign into class and complete quiz 2, quiz 3 and library quiz.
Directions for the library quiz are as follows
Please follow the steps below:
Step 1: Go to Barry library;
Step 2: Click "Research Companion" under the title "Getting Help";
Step 3: Create an account and start to do the library quiz;
Step 4: Upload your results of the library quiz to the assignment page.
Or you can use the link (The link is: pqrc.proquest.com)