SOCR8001: Research questions and literature reviews 代写

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    • SOCR8001: Research questions and literature reviews 代写

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    SOCR8001: Research questions and
    literature reviews.
    Your report:
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    INTRO
    Topic
    Gap or
    problem in
    the literature
    Raises your
    research
    questions
    + METHOD
    how you
    did the
    research
    + RESULTS
    explains
    what the
    results were
    = DISCUSSION
    Why do your
    results matter in
    relation to the
    literature?
    Academic Skills and Learning Centre
    Research Questions
    In order to have an argument you need to
    have a question. But what makes a good
    question?
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    Types of questions
    Descriptive
    vs
    Evaluative/Analytical
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    Is this question descriptive or analytical?
    What are the apparent benefits – economic
    and non-economic – of education and do
    they vary by gender or remoteness?
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    SOCR8001: Research questions and literature reviews 代写
    Is this question descriptive or analytical?
    Are Indigenous Australians happier or less
    happy at school than non-Indigenous
    Australians and do any differences change
    after controlling for other characteristics?
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    Is this question descriptive or analytical?
    What is the relationship between Australians’
    self-rated health and three social and
    economic factors, namely: relationship
    status; the importance of religion; and
    employment status?
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    Is this question descriptive or analytical?
    Is there a relationship between hours of
    housework a person completes and their
    partnership status in Australia? In particular
    is there a difference between those who are
    in a relationship and co-habit and those who
    are married?
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    Research questions
    It is also possible to have questions that are
    broad and questions that are narrow in their
    focus.
    Both types of questions have positive and
    negative aspects
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    Broad vs Narrow Questions
    Broad Articulation: The current paper draws on this
    broader research to investigate variations across Australian
    households in the use of paid domestic labor. As others
    have noted, despite the large body of research on domestic
    service we know little about the processes that lead some
    Western households to purchase domestic help while
    others do not.
    Narrowed Focus: …we investigate a range of attitudes in
    Australia about whether paid domestic help is a cost-
    effective, efficient, and appropriate strategy for dealing with
    domestic tasks.
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    Broad vs Narrow Questions
    Broad Articulation: This research examines employed
    parents’ satisfaction with the flexibility of their working
    hours and their attitudes about the importance of flexible
    working hours in order to contribute to our understanding of
    the gendered utilisation of flexible working arrangements
    and the potential implications for gender equality.
    Narrowed Focus: In particular this paper examines if
    mothers’and fathers’ satisfaction with the flexibility of their
    working hours and attitudes about the importance of
    flexible working hours are different, and if so, how?
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    Literature reviews
    Goals:
    • Show the current state of research on your topic
    – read seminal works, new materials and
    reviews
    • Identify where there is a gap in this research that
    your project will make a contribution to.
    • Identify particular studies/ methodologies/
    research that you are basing your own project
    upon.
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    Critically engaging with the literature
    What are some questions you can ask to help you
    critically engage with the literature?
    • What are its strengths and weaknesses/limitations?
    • What is known/not known?
    • What are the different positions / debates, and where
    does your work fit within them?
    • What is contradictory, contested or uncertain and how
    can different findings be explained (e.g. through theory,
    modelling, methodology? Other?)
    • Which issues do you want to draw attention to and why?
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    Language of critical engagement
    Use phrases that indicate that you are:
    • Summarising main themes and arguments
    • Highlighting relevant issues to your research
    • Critiquing the literature
    • Positioning your research in relation to the
    literature
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    Language of critical engagement
    For example:
    •To date, much of the work…
    •Of these, few studies have examined…
    •A common theme that has emerged…
    •Most of these studies have found that…
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    Activity
    Skim read the literature review example you
    have been given. How is it structured?
    Can you find key indicating phrases which
    show a critical engagement with the text?
    Note: this is a high achieving example of a student assignment.
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    Why Acknowledge Others?
    Acknowledgement:
    •Distinguishes your ideas from other people’s
    •Situates your work in relation to a community of
    scholarship
    •Strengthens your argument
    •Allows readers to follow up on information
    •Is an essential requirement for all work at ANU
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    What types of sources should you be
    using in your research?
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    Are these relevant and credible
    sources?
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    When to Reference
    Reference if you
    • Quote
    • Paraphrase or summarise
    • Use another’s material (e.g. facts,
    statistics, images)
    Acknowledge every time
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    Quote when…
    • it emphatically reinforces your own ideas
    • the language is particularly effective
    • paraphrasing distorts the original
    Don’t
    • use overly long quotes
    • use quotes to make your argument
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    Where to find help
    Referencing
    • APA style guide
    Turnitin practice site
    Paragraphing style, flow and cohesion
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    Questions
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    SOCR8001: Research questions and literature reviews 代写