Summary
This chapter introduced the basic parts of a standard empirical paper – introduction, literature review, theory & hypotheses, analysis, and conclusions. We then homed in on the first one that most people write, the literature review. The literature review is a unique genre of writing with its own conventions and expectations. Good literature reviews are multi-stage processes that show evidence of redrafting and that place literature in a context that allows the reader to not only understand the shape of the forest – the entire body of literature – but to locate the author’s claims within in that literature.
Articles
Web Extra: In Defense of the Chicken
Web Extra: Anti-DEI Dreadful Draft
Link to Obenzinger article
< ahref="https://www.erwbook.com/the-ideal-research-design-the-experiment/">The ‘Ideal’ Research Design: The Experiment
Vocab Flashcards
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[q] Preliterature review tool combining complete citations for sources with a brief summary and commentary on each piece
[a] annotated bibliography
[q] Electronic tools that manage, collate, and format citations in manuscripts
[a] bibliographic management software
[q] Literature discovery process in which the researcher uses items cited in prominent or recent work to locate other relevant pieces and authors further back in the scholarly chain
[a] bibliography hopping
[q] Stable, permanent web address for research papers, datasets, and other scholarly publications
[a] document online identifier (DOI)
[q] Form of peer review in which neither the author(s) nor the reviewer(s) know the other’s identity
[a] double-blind
[q] System allowing researchers to request items not owned by their own library from other sources
[a] Inter-Library Loan (ILL)
[q] Massive database of full-text journals in many disciplines, with extensive historical holding
[a] Journal Storage Project (JSTOR)
[q] Common survey response scale (ordinal measurement) differentiating between four or five points: strongly agree, agree, no opinion/neutral (sometimes omitted), disagree, strongly disagree; other verbs may be substituted for agree.
[a] Likert scale
[q] Body of research about a research question or research theme
[a] literature, scholarly
[q] Scholarly book or other extended work, usually written by a single author
[a] monograph
[q] Working paper/research report that is in draft form and not yet published or peer-reviewed
[a] preprint
[q] Set of related research questions often drawing on the same concepts and theories
[a] research program
[q] Tool for discovering work citing central or prominent articles, forward in time from the starting piece; sometimes called Web of Science
[a] Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
[q] Cluster of related answers to a research question; typically a subset of a scholarly literature
[a] theory family
[q] Tool for qualitative analysis of hypotheses derived from formal models; variable focused
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Review Quiz
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[q] A typical empirical paper has 6 parts.
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[q] ______ is a free, open-source reference management software that anyone can download and use.
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[q] In the _________ model of literature reviews, the researcher focuses on debates in the field, with an emphasis on situating the current research in those discussions.
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