review. To help you with this, study Chapter 2 of your prescribed book (Terre Blanche et al., 2006) on ‘Doing an information search’, as well as information on the literature review in this and other tutorial letters. [10 marks] 1 Identifying knowledge gaps and developing a research problem: to...
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Activity 1:
Name and briefly discuss 5 purposes of a literature review. To help you with this, study
Chapter 2 of your prescribed book (Terre Blanche et al., 2006) on ‘Doing an information
search’, as well as information on the literature review in this and other tutorial letters.
[10 marks]
1 Identifying knowledge gaps and developing a research problem: to be practical, the
identified research problem has to clearly stated with explicit parameters.
2 Identifying a theoretical framework: refining a research problem, includes identifying a
theoretical framework upon which to base the research.
3 Identifying issues and variables related to the research topic: Reading literature helps the
researcher to focus on important issues and variables that have a bearing on the research
question.
4 Identifying conceptual and operational definitions: It is an important aspect of the research
process to provide clear and unambiguous definitions of key concepts.
5 Executing the search: researchers need to know where to look and search for sources of
information most likely to yield literature about the topic.
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Activity 2:
Name and briefly discuss 5 qualities of a well-written literature review. [10 marks]
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4 Summarization: to concisely and accurately describe each source of information.
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Activity 3: recent developments.
We did a literature search on the topic (moral development during adolescence) and selected
a number of relevant articles for you. You now need to search for five additional, recent (no
older than six year) articles on this topic. Keep your research problem in mind, and focus on
recent (and relevant) research articles on factors influencing moral development in
adolescence. (Remember to include the details of these articles in your reference list in
Assignment 27, the research report). Provide a reference list of your 5 sources by strictly
adhering to the American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines (See PSYHONM
Tutorial Letter 103 point 5.2 for guidelines). Your reference list will be evaluated for the
relevance of the articles, how recent (newly published) they are, their status (peer-reviewed
journal versus an Internet communication) as well as for the accuracy of the references
according to the APA reference system. [20 marks]
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6Breckler,S. J., Olsen, M. J. & Wiggins, E. C. (2009) Social Psychology. London:
Cencage Learning EMEA.
Matlala, M. Y. (2011) The Role of Social factors in influencing the moral development of
black adolescents. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of South Africa, Pretoria.
Nelson, T. (2012) Adolessente seuns se houding ten opsigte van seksuele losbandigheid: ‘n
Sosio-opvoedkundige perspektief. Unpublished Master’s thesis, University of South Africa,
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