How to do your own experiments in psychology and education
2a(2 cont.). Information about how your process works and what affects it
General information on how your process works is for the General background section and specific information about how your factors affect this process, separately and together is for the Specific Background sections. The methodological information does not go in your Lit Review, but you will use it later.
How your process works and what affects it
Specific, research-based information about how your process works and how your factors affect this process is the “meat and potatoes” – or most important part – of your Lit Review. Your Lit Review focuses on the results and conclusions from other researchers who have studied your research problem or some, related part of it. For different sections of the Lit Review, you will focus on different parts of your research problem, and you will most likely use different sources for each section.
The main source of information for this part of your Lit Review will be published articles in peer-reviewed research journals. Books are usually too far out of date and other sources are simply not reliable enough. For a Lit Review, you need to focus only on the empirical articles – the ones that report research results. There are other kinds of articles in journals – discussions, book reviews, notices, obituaries, etc. – but you will not use any of them in a Lit Review.
The next topic identifies where you can look for different kinds of information and the following topic tells you how to find relevant publications efficiently.
Read this topic next: Identify where you can find the publications that you need
How your process works and what affects it
Specific, research-based information about how your process works and how your factors affect this process is the “meat and potatoes” – or most important part – of your Lit Review. Your Lit Review focuses on the results and conclusions from other researchers who have studied your research problem or some, related part of it. For different sections of the Lit Review, you will focus on different parts of your research problem, and you will most likely use different sources for each section.
The main source of information for this part of your Lit Review will be published articles in peer-reviewed research journals. Books are usually too far out of date and other sources are simply not reliable enough. For a Lit Review, you need to focus only on the empirical articles – the ones that report research results. There are other kinds of articles in journals – discussions, book reviews, notices, obituaries, etc. – but you will not use any of them in a Lit Review.
The next topic identifies where you can look for different kinds of information and the following topic tells you how to find relevant publications efficiently.
Read this topic next: Identify where you can find the publications that you need
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