{"id":112,"date":"2024-07-01T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/quantitativeresearch\/?post_type=part&#038;p=112"},"modified":"2024-07-10T19:52:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:52:52","slug":"chapter-4-conducting-a-literature-review","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/quantitativeresearch\/part\/chapter-4-conducting-a-literature-review\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 4: Conducting a Literature Review","rendered":"Chapter 4: Conducting a Literature Review"},"content":{"raw":"<p class=\"import-Normal\">Whether you plan to engage in clinical, community, or organizational practice, being able to look at the available literature on a topic and synthesize the relevant facts into a coherent review is a fundamental skill. Literature reviews can have a powerful effect, for example by providing the factual basis for a new program or policy in an agency or government. In your own research proposal, conducting a thorough literature review will help you build strong arguments for why your topic is important and why your research question must be answered.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><strong>LEARNING OBJECTIVES<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Be able to describe a literature review and explain its purpose<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Become familiar with the notion of synthesizing literature and means to accomplish this<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Be aware of the beneficial practices and common pitfalls while writing the literature review<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">Chapter 4: Conducting a Literature Review is adapted from Matthew DeCarlo (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/open.umn.edu\/opentextbooks\/textbooks\/591\"><i>Scientific Inquiry in Social Work <\/i><\/a>and is licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/deed.en\">CC BY-NC-SA<\/a> Licence.<\/div>","rendered":"<p class=\"import-Normal\">Whether you plan to engage in clinical, community, or organizational practice, being able to look at the available literature on a topic and synthesize the relevant facts into a coherent review is a fundamental skill. Literature reviews can have a powerful effect, for example by providing the factual basis for a new program or policy in an agency or government. In your own research proposal, conducting a thorough literature review will help you build strong arguments for why your topic is important and why your research question must be answered.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><strong>LEARNING OBJECTIVES<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Be able to describe a literature review and explain its purpose<\/li>\n<li>Become familiar with the notion of synthesizing literature and means to accomplish this<\/li>\n<li>Be aware of the beneficial practices and common pitfalls while writing the literature review<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">Chapter 4: Conducting a Literature Review is adapted from Matthew DeCarlo (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/open.umn.edu\/opentextbooks\/textbooks\/591\"><i>Scientific Inquiry in Social Work <\/i><\/a>and is licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/deed.en\">CC BY-NC-SA<\/a> Licence.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false,"pb_part_invisible_string":""},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-112","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/quantitativeresearch\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/quantitativeresearch\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/quantitativeresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/quantitativeresearch\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/quantitativeresearch\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/112\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/quantitativeresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/quantitativeresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/quantitativeresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}