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Research Methods - STA630 Power Point Slides Lecture 09

This document provides an overview of conducting a literature review in research methods. It discusses defining a clear research topic and question, designing effective search parameters, locating relevant research reports through academic journals, indexes, and libraries, using keywords in computer searches, recording bibliographic citations, writing a critical review that logically organizes findings and addresses discrepancies, avoiding plagiarism, and considering important ethical issues around informed consent, privacy, deception, and protecting confidentiality in research.

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Research Methods - STA630 Power Point Slides Lecture 09

This document provides an overview of conducting a literature review in research methods. It discusses defining a clear research topic and question, designing effective search parameters, locating relevant research reports through academic journals, indexes, and libraries, using keywords in computer searches, recording bibliographic citations, writing a critical review that logically organizes findings and addresses discrepancies, avoiding plagiarism, and considering important ethical issues around informed consent, privacy, deception, and protecting confidentiality in research.

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RESEARCH

METHODS

Lecture 9
1. CONDUCTING
REVIEW OF
LITERATURE
2. ETHICAL ISSUES
Define and refine a topic
• Have a good idea of your topic of
interest
• Some clear research question to
guide pursuit of relevant material.
• “Crime” is too broad. Narrow it to:
“type of crime” or “economic
inequality and crime”
• Review may help refocusing.
Design a search
• Set parameters of your search:
• Type of review; how extensive.
• How to record the bibliographic
citations.
• Begin a file folder or computer
file.
Locate research reports
• Articles in scholarly journals.
• Locating the relevant articles is
difficult.
• Many academic field have
“abstracts” or “indexes” for
scholarly literature.
• Look in reference section of library
• Also available on computer.
Computerized literature
search
• Researchers organize computerized
researches by author, by article title,
by subject, or by keyword.
• Keyword important term for topic that
is likely to be found in the title.
• Use 6-8 keywords in most computer
based searches and use several
synonyms
Other material
• Scholarly books: have to use
catalog
• Dissertations: A publication called
Dissertation Abstract International.
• Government Documents: Section
in library.
• Policy reports and presented
papers. Difficult to locate. May be
part of some bibliographies of
published studies, or abstracts, or
indexes.
What to record
• Write down all details of the reference
(full name of the authors, titles, journal
name, year, volume, issue, pages)
• Same about books and other
publications.
• Follow some standard format Like
APA/ASA style.
• Refferencing electronic source: Ahmad, B.
(2006). Technology and immediacy of
information. [on line] Available
http://www.bnet.act.com
Write the review
• Read critically. Skepticism is the
norm of science. Don’t accept
simply because it is published.
Evaluate.
• See whether introduction and the
title fit with the rest of the article.
• Methods and results sections are
the most critical.
How review will look like?
• Listing series of reports with a
summary of each is not a review.
• It reads a set of notes strung
together.
• Organize common findings or
arguments together.
• Address the most important ideas
first, to logically link findings, and
to note discrepancies.
Plagiarism
• In publications, presentations, writings
the researchers explicitly identify,
credit, and reference the author when
they take data or material verbatim
from another person’s written work,
whether it is published, unpublished,
or electronically available.
• Do not present others’ work as your
own. Even the ideas have to be
acknowledged.
Ethical Issues in Research
• Management listening to Union
members’ conversation in cafeteria
through hidden devices. Is there a
moral question involved?
• A researcher discards damaging
information about an organization. Is
this proper?
• These questions are philosophical
questions.
Ethical Issues
• Philosophical questions (No
agreement)
• Societal norms determine what is
right and what is wrong.
• Codes of behavior determine what
ought to be done.
Ethical behavior pervades
each step of the research
process – data collection,
data analysis, reporting,
and dissemination of
information
Rights of the respondents
• The right to be informed (informed
consent: the expressed or implied
acknowledgment waiving an
individual’s right to privacy when
he/she agrees to participate in
study)
• The obligation to be truthful
• Privacy
• Deception
Obligations of the
researcher
• The purpose of research is
research. Do not misrepresent.
• Objectivity – also no
misrepresentation of research
findings
• Protecting the right to
confidentiality of the subject and
clients.
RESEARCH
METHODS

Lecture 9

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