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1. What is the main aim of the literature review?
a) It helps develop a story line
b) It proves that a researcher is knowledgeable in
their chosen area
c) It shows that there are unanswered questions in a
researcher’s area of research
d) All of these
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2. When doing your background reading for your
literature review it is important to ________.
a) Keep detailed reference of the full publication
information of anything that you read
b) be critical while reading
c) take good notes to jot down any ideas that occur
to you during the reading process
d) All of these
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3. Which of the following statements is not true with
regard to the literature review?
a) The literature review shows why research questions are
important
b) It is important to get everything a researcher has read into the
literature review
c) Students should continue the research for and reading of the
relevant literature throughout the whole research process
d) A literature review helps researchers to build up an argument
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4. Which of the following statements is not correct
regarding the systematic literature review process?
a) It is a very transparent approach
b) It is used by quantitative as well as qualitative researchers
c) It provides a more reliable foundation on how to design
research because it is based on a more comprehensive
understanding of the subject
d) The systematic review is concerned with trying to understand
the effects of a particular variable or intervention which has
been found in previous studies
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5. What would be the reason of a post-positivist
researcher for reviewing the literature?
a) Post-positivist researchers want to enrich the human
discourse. Therefore, by conducting a literature review
they want to gain an initial impression of the topic area
that they intend to understand through their research.
b) They want to gain detailed knowledge of their research
field and conduct a systematic review to do so
c) They want to find out what their research project can
add to existing knowledge in their research field
d) All of these
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6. What is the most important reason to include
references in a literature review?
a) To avoid plagiarism and to acknowledge within the literature
review the various sources used which have contributed to the
subject area
b) The supervisor wants to know if the student cited the major
article
c) Researchers wants to be cited in as many publications as
possible
d) None of these
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7. Which of the following examples are of plagiarism?
a) The act of passing off a thesis as new when the
argument has been used elsewhere
b) To use another person’s words, ideas, thoughts, as one’s
own
c) To use another person’s inventions and designs as one’s
own
d) All of these
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8. How can plagiarism be avoided?
a) When researching, it is important to make careful notes of
all sources
b) Avoid paraphrase whole sentences without putting them
into quotation marks
c) When submitting your own work, be sure to acknowledge
the ideas that have been explored by others
d) All of these
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
9. What is a narrative literature review?
a) A summary of all literature which was ever published in
the field under investigation
b) A researcher’s initial impression of a topic, which will be
more fully understood as the research progresses
c) A historically based review that intends to give an
overview of the development of a certain topic
d) All of these
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
10. There are three key aspects to a literature review :
summarizing, synthesizing and ______________
a) Referencing
b) Citing
c) Paraphrasing
d) Evaluating
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Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
1. What is the main aim of the literature review?
a) It helps develop a story line
b) It proves that a researcher is knowledgeable in
their chosen area
c) It shows that there are unanswered questions in a
researcher’s area of research
d) All of these
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
2. When doing your background reading for your
literature review it is important to ________.
a) Keep detailed reference of the full publication
information of anything that you read
b) be critical while reading
c) take good notes to jot down any ideas that occur
to you during the reading process
d) All of these
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
3. Which of the following statements is not true with
regard to the literature review?
a) The literature review shows why research questions are
important
b) It is important to get everything a researcher has read into the
literature review
c) Students should continue the research for and reading of the
relevant literature throughout the whole research process
d) A literature review helps researchers to build up an argument
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
4. Which of the following statements is not correct
regarding the systematic literature review process?
a) It is a very transparent approach
b) It is used by quantitative as well as qualitative researchers
c) It provides a more reliable foundation on how to design
research because it is based on a more comprehensive
understanding of the subject
d) The systematic review is concerned with trying to understand
the effects of a particular variable or intervention which has
been found in previous studies
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
5. What would be the reason of a post-positivist
researcher for reviewing the literature?
a) Post-positivist researchers want to enrich the human
discourse. Therefore, by conducting a literature review
they want to gain an initial impression of the topic area
that they intend to understand through their research.
b) They want to gain detailed knowledge of their research
field and conduct a systematic review to do so
c) They want to find out what their research project can
add to existing knowledge in their research field
d) All of these
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
6. What is the most important reason to include
references in a literature review?
a) To avoid plagiarism and to acknowledge within the literature
review the various sources used which have contributed to the
subject area
b) The supervisor wants to know if the student cited the major
article
c) Researchers wants to be cited in as many publications as
possible
d) None of these
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
7. Which of the following examples are of plagiarism?
a) The act of passing off a thesis as new when the
argument has been used elsewhere
b) To use another person’s words, ideas, thoughts, as one’s
own
c) To use another person’s inventions and designs as one’s
own
d) All of these
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
8. How can plagiarism be avoided?
a) When researching, it is important to make careful notes of
all sources
b) Avoid paraphrase whole sentences without putting them
into quotation marks
c) When submitting your own work, be sure to acknowledge
the ideas that have been explored by others
d) All of these
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
9. What is a narrative literature review?
a) A summary of all literature which was ever published in
the field under investigation
b) A researcher’s initial impression of a topic, which will be
more fully understood as the research progresses
c) A historically based review that intends to give an
overview of the development of a certain topic
d) All of these
Write the letter of your answer in capital letter
10. There are three key aspects to a literature review :
summarizing, synthesizing and ______________
a) Referencing
b) Citing
c) Paraphrasing
d) Evaluating