{"id":255,"date":"2015-09-15T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T09:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/?p=255"},"modified":"2016-11-12T05:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:25:49","slug":"week-3-checklist-for-the-literature-review-as-a-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/week-3-checklist-for-the-literature-review-as-a-whole\/","title":{"rendered":"CHECKLIST &#8211; for the Literature Review as a whole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. What is the specific thesis, problem, or research question that my literature review\u00a0helps to define?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2. What type of literature review am I conducting? Am I looking at issues of theory?\u00a0methodology? policy? quantitative research (e.g. on the effectiveness of a new\u00a0procedure)? qualitative research (e.g., studies)?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3. What is the scope of my literature review? What types of publications am I using\u00a0(e.g., journals, books, government documents, popular media)? What discipline am I\u00a0working in (e.g., nursing psychology, sociology, medicine)?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4. How good was my information seeking? Has my search been wide enough to ensure\u00a0I\u2019ve found all the relevant material? Has it been narrow enough to exclude irrelevant\u00a0material? Is the number of sources I\u2019ve used appropriate for the length of my paper?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">5. Have I critically analysed the literature I use? Do I follow through a set of concepts\u00a0and questions, comparing items to each other in the ways they deal with them? Instead\u00a0of just listing and summarizing items, do I assess them, discussing strengths and\u00a0weaknesses?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">6. Have I cited and discussed studies contrary to my perspective?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">7. Will the reader find my literature review relevant, appropriate, and useful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What is the specific thesis, problem, or research question that my literature review\u00a0helps to define? 2. What type of literature review am I conducting? Am I looking at issues of theory?\u00a0methodology? policy? quantitative research (e.g. on the effectiveness of a new\u00a0procedure)? qualitative research (e.g., studies)? 3. What is the scope of my literature review? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/week-3-checklist-for-the-literature-review-as-a-whole\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHECKLIST &#8211; for the Literature Review as a whole<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}