Pre-search:
- Poke around the social work literature to get familiar with terminology
- Focus on topics that are meaningful, relevant, interesting to you personally
- Perform some quick searches using terms associated with those topics:
- Does there seem to be enough results on those topics?
- Jot down words and concepts to be incorporated into your search strategy
Define the Problem:
- Problem statement
- Purpose statement
Research: Perform your literature review
- Search databases and collect research articles to consider for your literature review
- Search multiple databases and adjust search strategies
- Organize collected research articles and select the items to include in your literature review
- 7 research articles for individuals, 10 for pairs, 14 for groups of three
- Must include at least one research article from these categories:
- Quantitative
- Qualitative
- Meta-analysis or Systematic Review
- NOTE: Some databases allow you to limit results by methodology
- Research articles should be published in the past 10 years
- Write the literature review
Identify Gaps in the Literature
Craft your Research Hypothesis
Create your Reference Page using APA format
