This guide is to you with your research in GEN 185: Methods of Scientific Research & Development. The below resources will provide you with useful tips and meaningful help in completing your literature review.
Do you struggle to read academic and scholarly resources like research articles? You are not alone! Reading scholarly materials is important during your academic experience; it helps you get the most out of your sources and understand your subject better. This video will review steps you can take to understand and read scholarly sources.
Correctly reading scholarly materials helps you get the most out of your sources and increases your understanding of your subject. We'll review steps you can take to better read and understand scholarly sources.
A literature review is an overview of the available literature and research on your research topic. A literature review demonstrates that you understand your topic and know your how own research fits into existing knowledge on your topic. Literature reviews:
We have included the following resources below to assist you in creating your literature review:
More helpful resources on the literature review include:
Once you’ve finished your research and are ready to write, you’ll have decisions to make about how to present the research you’ve accumulated. You’ll always need to give credit to others for their ideas, but you don’t always have to present your source’s ideas in the same way. There are three basic modes of presenting evidence and ideas from other sources: in direct quotations, through paraphrasing, or by summarizing.
This tutorial will define these three methods of discussing evidence and information, tips and examples for using each method, and guidance for deciding which method is best for a given situation.
Synthesis is the combination of information to form a cohesive view of a topic, issue, or event. Information may include evidence such as data sets, quotes and opinions, or research findings. For your literature review, you will need to draw connections between your research topic and the literature you collect. This video will help you understand how you can draw connections between different sources you collect, to create an explanation of your topic.
Just as it is important to evaluate claims based on quantitative data (such as Detroit is the most dangerous city in the U.S.), the same is true with statistics you come across. As statistics are widely used to support arguments and positions, it is helpful to be able to think critically about how they were created and how they are being used.
Watch this video to learn how to critically evaluate statistics.
For help creating your Reference list and citing your sources using APA Style, click here.
For help creating in-text citations for your Final Project, click here.
For our full guide on APA Citation, click here.
This video and tutorial will help you identify the required elements of APA 7th edition citation style in order to properly format in-text and reference list citations in your assignments. The tutorial includes several "check your understand" questions with drag and drop exercises where students can format citations of different source types properly.
The following quiz tests your knowledge of APA 7th Edition Citation format. This quiz is not graded, but is merely to help you test your knowledge of APA citation. When you begin this quiz it may ask for your name, class, and teacher. This information will not be used for grading.