Literature

Research Article

A research article is a detailed and formal written document that presents the findings of a study or investigation. It typically follows a specific structure, including an abstract, introduction, methodology, results, discussion, and conclusion. Research articles are published in academic journals and are essential for sharing new knowledge and contributing to the advancement of a particular field of study.

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  • Book cover image for: Research Methods For Business
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    Research Methods For Business

    A Skill Building Approach

    • Uma Sekaran, Roger Bougie(Authors)
    • 2016(Publication Date)
    • Wiley
      (Publisher)
    Research Articles are reports of empirical research, describing one or a few related studies. The conceptual background section of a Research Article provides a compact overview of relevant literature. Research Articles also provide a detailed description of the purpose of the study, the method(s) used, and the results of the study. chapter  the critical literature review 55 Articles in professional journals are a valuable source of recent developments in the field and of facts and figures. What’s more, they may provide you with a feel for the practical relevance of a problem. Theses PhD theses often contain an exhaustive review of the literature in a specific area. Most PhD theses include several empirical chapters. These chapters often have the same structure and characteristics as academic journal articles. Note that not every empirical chapter of a thesis is eventually published in an academic journal. Conference proceedings Conference proceedings can be useful in providing the latest research, or research that has not (yet) been pub- lished. Conference proceedings are very up to date, and for this reason this information source is quite valuable if you are working in a relatively new area or domain. Not every manuscript presented at a conference is eventu- ally published in an academic journal; hence you must critically assess the quality of this information source. Unpublished manuscripts The APA defines an unpublished manuscript as any information source that is not “officially” released by an individual, publishing house, or other company. Examples of unpublished manuscripts may include papers accepted for publication but still “in press,” data from an unpublished study, letters, manuscripts in preparation, and personal communications (including e‐mails). Unpublished manuscripts are often very up to date. Reports Government departments and corporations commission or carry out a large amount of research.
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    Social Research Methods

    For Students and Scholars of Theology and Religious Studies

    Chapter 2 REVIEWING THE LITERATURE
    Academic research aims to produce or advance knowledge, which requires researchers to review, analyze, and synthesize the existing literature on the topic being studied to assess the current knowledge. This process is the key factor in differentiating academic research from other research projects. As a researcher, you build your arguments on evidence from research-based publications or from field work. In social research, information from field work is the primary source while scholarly literature is the secondary source. Literature plays a vital role in writing your research proposal and dissertation/thesis or scholarly article or monograph.
    Literature in Academic Research
    A literature review serves various purposes for writing a thesis or dissertation or a scholarly article or monograph. In academic research, the term “literature” refers to research-based scholarly publications such as journal articles and monographs. As a researcher, you build your arguments on research-based publications because they go through a rigorous process to ensure they provide credible evidence from the field or from literature to support the claim being made. Specialists peer review and vet the articles before they are accepted for publication in a journal. Scholars and students of a discipline are the audience for journals and research-based books; contrarily, periodicals and popular books publish material to enlighten and entertain the public.
    The literature plays a vital role at every stage of the research process and sets the stage for you to present your contributions in a dissertation/thesis. In your research proposal, the literature provides the background for your study by indicating the current trends in the area. You will define research questions or hypotheses and research problems based on the literature. The methodology section relies on the specialized literature on social research methods.
  • Book cover image for: Scientific Writing in a Second Language
    • David Ian Hanauer, Karen Englander(Authors)
    • 2013(Publication Date)
    Thus, the published Research Article has become the major component of the evaluation of research value of a person, institution, or geo-graphical region. So while the most obvious functions of the Research Article might be the dissemination of knowledge, the establishment of existing claims, and the direction and development of new scientific research, an analysis of the social role of the Research Article reveals that it is a measure of individual and group scientific and intellectual value that facilitates economic and professional opportunities. 2.3 Producing a Research Article The process of producing a Research Article is tied to two very dif-ferent contexts—research within the laboratory (or in other research settings) and interaction with publishing outlets. Writing a Research Article is an extended process of several months (to over a year) that in-tegrates what was done as research and the requirements and responses from journal editors and reviewers. Broadly, the contours of this pro-cess consist of interaction in the research setting over the construction of a Research Article and then interaction with specific comments of Hanauer and Englander 20 reviewers and editors over the status of a paper and how it can be revised. As described by Myers (1990), a large part of this process is attaining the appropriate level of claim for the study conducted. This movement over the generalizability or specificity of the claim is part of an extended negotiation between the authors and the type of journal and its specific journal editors.
  • Book cover image for: Methodology for Social Sciences Research in Agriculture
    If the student wishes to use a relevant article, he has to take a photocopy of it or prepare a summary and record it for reference for later use. As far as possible, the student should select the latest issue of the journal to collect the latest information about the selected topic. For example, in the above research study, the student refer journals like ‘Agricultural Marketing’, Indian Journal of Agricultural Marketing’ etc. Articles published in research journals offer an invaluable source of This ebook is exclusively for this university only. Cannot be resold/distributed. review to the student. This source should form the core of the literature review. This is because, the published articles are also written by the researchers, who are doing research in the same field. These articles are presented in a systematic fashion i.e ., Title of the article, Name(s) of the researcher(s), Abstract, Introduction, Review of literature, Materials and Methods, Results and discussion, Summary and conclusions, Policy implications and Bibliography. Moreover, these articles are peer reviewed before their publication. These journals also publish review articles that provide a review of all of the recent work in an area. Both Research Articles and review articles will include a significant bibliography that may serve as an invaluable sources of reference to the researcher in accomplishing the selected research topic. Professional journals include Research Articles about a particular topic or area and each article may run about 3 to 4 pages in length. These articles also guide the researcher in collecting the review pertinent to his research topic in general and framed objectives in particular. Internet : The Internet is relatively a new tool for conducting literature reviews. It provides enormous collection of research materials such as articles, books, journals, databases, graphic images, video and audio files etc.
  • Book cover image for: Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology
    These authors write about their conclusions and analysis in these reports. 5.2.3. Review Articles Review articles generally summarize the research that was published earlier on a particular topic and these articles generally have a new way to explain a topic and provide the results. Review articles summarize the information that is presented in different articles. 5.2.4. Theoretical Articles Theoretical article refers to the article which does not include any practical research that is conducted but generally gives theoretical perspective about a topic or the theoretical information regarding a topic (Figure 5.3). Figure 5.3. Image of different articles. Source: Image by Pixabay. There are several journals with Research Articles in psychology and there are professionals who conduct a review of these Research Articles by professionals called the double-blind peer review. Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology 112 The researchers who have the intent to publish their work generally submit a manuscript to the editor. The editor of a journal would mostly be an efficient writer and established researcher and the editor then sends this manuscript to two or more experts who are pioneers in this particular research area. This manuscript is read and reviewed by all these subject matter experts and each one would write a critical review about the topic and this review is sent back to the editor with the appropriate recommendations. The editor reads the recommendation, evaluates the manuscript, and decides whether or not to publish the article and sends it back to the researcher with a list of changes that have to be done or sometimes may directly reject the Research Article.Sometimes the researcher would send the manuscript to the researcher with the comments so that the researcher can improve their manuscript.
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