SOCI/SOCW 4362 - Social Research   Tags: course guide, dr. beckley, soci4362, soci5362, social research, social work, sociology, socw4362, socw5362  

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The information in these pages will help you:

• conduct your literature review
• find and evaluate articles in scholarly journals
• properly format and cite your sources and your paper
• Contact reference librarians for research assistance.

a literature review surveys scholarly articles, books and other sources (e.g. dissertations, conference proceedings) relevant to a particular issue, area of research, or theory, providing a description, summary, and critical evaluation of each work. The purpose is to offer an overview of significant literature published on a topic. http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/write-a-literature-review

For an example, look at The role of justice and social exchange relationships in workplace deviance: Test of a mediated model from Human Relations.

• p. 1687-1688 contain the abstract, and the introductory literature review.
• p. 1689-1695 continues the literature review, tying previous research to the author's studeny design, theory and hypotheses.
• note that the last 7 pages of the article contain the full reference list.

A good literature review will be well focused on the specific research question. The sources used will be currrent, relevant, authoratative, accurate, and from an unbiased perspective.

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