Practical Research Long Test

• Critical Review is a traditional review that focuses on theories or hypothesis and examines meaning and results of their application to

  situations.
• State of the art review is a traditional review that makes the researcher deal with the latest research studies on the subject.
• Conceptual review is an analysis of concepts or ideas to give meaning to some national or world issues.
• Systematic Review is a style of RRL that involves sequential acts of review of related literature.
• Acknowledgement is the beginning portion of the work that identifies individuals who have contributed something for the production of the paper.
• In preparing for a research paper on the effects of social media on mental health, you found a study from 2010. Since it's over a decade old, you can include it from your literature review as outdated.
• You're citing a book authored by three individuals. In your APA citation, you should list first authors' last names in the order they appear on the title page.
• You're designing a study to examine the meaning of people`s experiences. A phenomenology research design would be appropriate for this investigation.
• For your research project on urbanization, you decide to conduct interviews with residents of different cities. This approach aligns with a qualitative research design, allowing you to gather in-depth insights and perspectives.
• Stage 1: Search for the Literature

  This is the stage of review of related literature where you devote much of your time in looking for sources of knowledge, data, or information to answer your research questions or to support your assumptions about your research topic
• three basic types of literature sources: general references that will direct you to the location of other sources; primary sources that directly report or present a person's own experiences, and secondary sources that report or describe other people's experiences or worldviews
• you are free to fuse your opinions with the author's ideas. (Corti 2014)
• Good literature review writing shuns presenting ideas in serial abstracts, which means every paragraph merely consists of one article. This is a source-by-source literature writing that fails to link, compare, and contrast series of articles based on a theory or a theme around which the research questions revolve. (Remlen, 2011)
• Juxtaposing or dealing with studies with respect to each other is your way of proving the extent of the validity of the findings of previous studies vis-a-vis the recent ones.
• writing an excellent review is adopting good opening sentences of articles that should chronologically appear in the paper.
• you give yourself the chance to express your genuine or opinionated knowledge about the topic, thereby, increasing the enthusiasm of people in reading your work. (Radylyer 2013)
• transitional devices and active verbs to link or express authors' ideas in your paper
• Transitional devices also, additionally, again, similarly, a similar opinion, however, conversely, on the other hand, nevertheless, a contrasting opinion, a different approach, etc.
• Active verbs analyze, argues, assess, assert, assume, claim, compare, contrast, conclude, criticize, debate, defend, define, demonstrate, discuss, distinguish, differentiate, evaluate, examine, emphasize, expand, explain, exhibit, identify, illustrate,
• Doing this practice signals not just honesty and courtesy to learned people whose ideas lend information to your paper, but also indicates your appreciation for their contribution to the field. (Hammersely 2013)
• Acknowledgment the beginning portion of the work that identifies individuals who have contributed something for the production of the paper
• References or Bibliography-a complete list of all reading materials, including books, journals, periodicals, etc. from where the borrowed ideas came from
• Citation or In-text Citation references within the main body of the text, specifically in Review of Related Literature
• Integral Citation This is one way of citing or referring to the author whose ideas appear in your work. You do this by using active verbs like claim, assert, state, etc. to report the author's ideas
• Non-integral Citation In contrast to integral citation that reflects the author's personal inclinations to a certain extent, this second citation style downplays any strength of the writer's personal characteristics
• Summary. The citation in this case is a shortened version of the original text that is expressed in your own language
• Paraphrase. This is the antithesis of the first one because, here, instead of shortening the form of the text, you explain what the text means to you using your own words.
• Short Direct Quotatim. Only a part of the author's sentence, the whole sentence, or several sentences, not exceeding 40 words
• Long Direct Quotation or Block Quotation, or Extract. Named in many ways, this citation pattern makes you copy the author's exact words numbering from 40 up to 100 words.
• APA (American Psychological Association
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• Tense of verbs for reporting Active verbs are effective words to use in reporting authors ideas.
• Plagiarism is an act of quoting or copying the exact words of the writer and passing the quoted words off as your own words.
• The right way to avoid plagiarism is to express the borrowed ideas in your own words. (Ransome 2013)
• Design is a word which means a plan or something that is conceptualized by the mind
• a design in the field of research serves as a blueprint or a skeletal framework of your research study.
• research design, you plan your methods or techniques in collecting and analyzing data.
• research study based on this research design is to describe a person, a thing, or any creature on Earth for the purpose of explaining the reasons behind the nature of its existence.
• ethnography involves a study of a certain cultural group or organization
• Historical Study determine the reasons for

  changes or permanence of things in the physical world in a certain period