Posted: September 13th, 2017

Topic: Conducting a Preliminary Literature Review

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Time is a precious commodity, and as a doctoral student you are keenly aware of its value. You are expected to be thorough and exhaustive in your search for academic

resources. These expectations don’t only exist so you can avoid duplicating existing research; they also empower and prepare you to contribute to the foundations of

thinking and practice in your chosen area of interest. One key to meeting these expectations is to develop proficiency in online searching.

Assignment
Share your tips and suggestions for finding relevant academic literature. These tips may relate to navigating particular electronic databases, applying general

searching techniques, constructing search term queries, broadening or narrowing your initial search results, finding monographs and other resources, or other topics.
2 sources please

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Conducting a Preliminary Literature Review
One of the early stages in developing a research project is to examine the available literature on your topic of interest and related topics. Discovering what others

have produced and organizing this information into a coherent picture will allow you to place your own research interests into the larger context. Toward that end, you

will engage in a literature search and ensuing Discussion.

This Discussion has two parts. First, you will create a literature map or outline; then, you will write a Literature Review pertaining to your research interests.

Be sure to note the ways in which the literature is used. Then, using the topic from your Problem Statement (my topic is Employee Retention in a call center), use the

Walden Library to search for articles related to your topic. Focus only on full-text scholarly or peer-reviewed articles or dissertations, and be sure to note the

number of results or hits that you get. Finally, narrow or broaden your results so that you have approximately 15 viable sources.

Use these resources to create a literature map like that presented in your course text, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches; you

may also create a traditional outline. When thinking about the categories and themes for your map or outline, consider these questions:

What are the trends in the literature?

What aspects of the topic have been researched?

What aspects of the topic need to be researched further, according to the articles?

Based on the literature, what commonly held assumptions exist within the field?

Based on the literature, what areas of discourse, contention (if any), or divergent perspectives exist?

Where would your research interests fall within this framework? Does your topic fill in a gap in the research? How does it relate to the existing literature you have

found?

Having created your literature map or outline, you will draft a Literature Review. Be sure to incorporate the uses of literature from the sample Literature Review. Use

at least 10 of the sources you found to create a preliminary review using APA format and citations. Incorporate the suggestions from your course text based on whether

your approach lends itself to a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods study. You do not need to use the same approach that you used last week, although you may

choose to do so.

http://library.waldenu.edu/
username is [email protected]
password is demden12 …. Lowercaps

Text book used
Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches

Chapter 2, “Review of the Literature” (pp. 23–47)

In this chapter, the author covers the role of the literature review, discussing commonalities and differences among literature reviews in the different research

method types.
In Chapter 4, “Writing Strategies and Ethical Considerations” (read section “Writing Ideas”; pp. 79–87)

This section presents tips and techniques for producing and assessing scholarly prose.

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