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The following guidelines are meant to help you search for and find relevant theory (underlying beliefs), research (what has been proven true), and practice (teaching strategies, suggestions, observations, etc.) related to your inquiry question(s). These are only directions. Do not attempt to use the forms on these directions pages as they are only examples. 1. Begin by going to the ERIC database 2. Use keywords (such as guided reading and assessment) that relate to your topic.
3. Click "Submit." A verification screen will appear saying:
4. Click submit again A list of articles and other documents containing your keywords will appear
5. Click on the hypertext document number, such as EJ299700 from above to read a full abstract of that article. 6. If this article (EJ) or document (ED) sounds like it would be useful, copy the information by either copying & pasting into a word processing file to print later. 7. Otherwise, use the BACK key to return to the list of possible references. 8. Eventually, you should have a list of books, articles, and other documents that cover your area of inquiry, including some research, theory, and practice. Though there is no magical number of articles, 2 of each of these three types (i.e. six articles) would be a sufficient start. 9. A literature review is a section of a paper, here your inquiry project, that covers the main theory, research, and practice related to your inquiry question. Be sure to use APA citing format (name, year) and full bibliographical information in your list of references. For an example, go to Kehus' lit. review (a bit more extensive than yours needs to be). 4-6 pages, including your page of references, should be sufficient for this phase of your inquiry project. |
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