Exam 3: Review of the Related Literature

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.

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

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

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:

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 ________.

Kirby is conducting a literature review in preparation for his study of "expectations regarding the sharing of financial and practical responsibilities among married and cohabiting couples in which both partners are between the ages of 20 and 29." Conducting a keyword search on "couples" and "responsibility," Kirby has generated a lengthy list of research articles.He decides to shorten the list of potential articles by eliminating all articles that were not published in prestigious research journals.He will include all the remaining articles in his literature review.What is your opinion of Kirby's approach to selecting articles for the literature review? Explain.

Jane wants to search for information about the variety of attention disorders that are seen in childhood.Which of the following sets of keywords would best get Jane started on an effective and efficient search?

A well-structured literature review:

The primary purpose for completing a thorough literature review as part of a research study is to:

Shar has read only about 20 refereed articles that relate to her primary research topic,but she's finding that they tend to focus on the same basic patterns and arguments.Her best plan of action at this point is to:

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

Direct quotations from other people's writing should ________.

As a rule of thumb,it is generally a good idea to track down references that are cited by ________ other researchers.

The review of the literature can be curtailed when:

Describe three benefits of conducting a thorough review of existing literature before writing a research proposal.

While reading and taking notes on research in her area of interest,Dana wrote down quotations from each article,along with the page numbers.As she begins to synthesize the information and write her literature review,her best strategy is to:

A well-written literature review:

Typically,the literature review should:

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 ________.