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Critical Literature Review

TOPIC - Recruitment process and trust a study of the recruitment process experienced by nurses considering employment in Australia.

Concept Map: In class presentation

Learning Outcome 1: Demonstrate information literacy and problem-solving skills to locate, gather and organise, credible and relevant resources.

Learning Outcome 2: Evaluate the quality and relevance of secondary sources related to your chosen field through critical reading.

Learning Outcome 3: Critically appraise, annotate and synthesise literature to develop a project statement for scholarly research in your chosen field.

Learning Outcome 4: Identify and distinguish between practice and theory-based literature in your chosen field.

Assessment - Literature Review

Context

A literature review explores and evaluates the body of knowledge on a specific topic or research question. As an output, it highlights the current state of knowledge on a topic. As a process, it moves broadly from established knowledge and narrows down to what is less well known, which is where your research gap is likely to be found. A literature review does not include everything ever written on the topic; it is a focused analysis of the important constructs in the specific context of your research inquiry. The critical thing is to show how the reviewed literature relates to your own area of inquiry. Completing this assessment will directly assist with your thesis, as is demonstrated in the following diagram.

Your literature review will support the development of your project statement. It is the conceptualisation phase and orientation to the literature and problem scope. You will demonstrate,

through this assessment, that your chosen project topic is based on existing scholarly research and needs to be researched. You will draw together your literature analysis and your articulation of the research project into a single, coherent submission.

Assessment Task

Building on Assessment 1, formulate and write a comprehensive literature review of approximately 5,000 words comprising of an extensive review of current literature and a project statement in your chosen field. The literature review situates your project within the existing body of knowledge and results in clear communication of the research problem, the purpose of the research, and the research questions for your future research.

Instructions

Building on your conceptual map in assessment one, complete the following:

Part A: Comprehensive Literature Review (approximately 3,000 words)

Introduction: state the overall purpose of your literature review clearly.

Introduce your topic of inquiry. This is not the broader body of knowledge but the narrowed inquiry you are pursuing. Frame the inquiry in the context of the broader literature and define the key terms.

Identify overall trends in what has been published on the topic. Draw from your Assessment 1 work and any facilitator feedback.

Body: summarise the findings of important studies that have been conducted on your topic.

Cluster the literature. Cluster literature into themes related to what the literature is suggesting. Ideally 3-4 authors should be offering the same theme for it to be relevant. Refer to your concept map from Assessment 1 and review your groupings of the literature (i.e., chronological, thematic, methodological, or theoretical).

Discuss the literature in the context of how it is grouped and the themes, for example, by variables, methods, conclusions, or geographical areas. Construct the body from a theme's perspective rather than as a list of journal articles. Keep the discussion objective. Use the literature and the voice of the expert authors to build the critical analysis and emergent themes presented in your literature review.

Discussion and synthesis: compare the literature and present key points for further inquiry.

Compare and contrast articles. Discuss strengths and weaknesses, and pinpoint similarities and dissimilarities in theoretical underpinnings, methods, and evidence.

Analyse the contributions of significant studies in the literature area with reference to the purpose of the review.

Synthesise your understanding. Combine the ideas and findings of multiple sources to present one or more overall points that will form the spine of your inquiry.

Conclusion to the literature review: restate the purpose and summarise findings.

Repeat the overall purpose of the review.

2. Summarise your findings from the review of the literature, demonstrating how the overall purpose was achieved.

3. Clearly identify your area of inquiry. Direct the audience to a new area for research and make a strong case for further exploration. This conclusion should lead naturally into Part B.

Part B: Project Statement (approximately 1,500 words)

Introduce the topic of inquiry and lead the audience to the problem being investigated. Conclude this introduction by listing the remaining sections that follow.

Problem statement: identify the need for the research.

Clarify what is broken that needs fixing. Do not propose a solution; if you already know the solution, there is no need for research! The problem must emanate from the literature, not from opinion.

Support the problem statement with references to recent literature (i.e., within the last five years, or seminal). The problem must be grounded in the literature gap identified in Part A.

Indicate the magnitude and severity of the problem. Articulate the consequences of leaving it unsolved. Discuss any attempts to resolve it documented in the literature so far, and the outcomes of that research, so you can distinguish your inquiry from others.

Purpose statement: state what you are setting out to achieve.

State what your research will encompass and what it will not, so the audience is clear on your claims.

State, in a paragraph, the tentative research design (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, multi-, or mixed methods). For studies using quantitative approaches, you may refer to quantitative research techniques when discussing methodological alignment.

Present a rationale for the appropriateness of the research design. Why this design over alternatives? Why does it best align with the purpose and research questions?

Research questions and hypotheses or propositions and conclusions (500 words): State the questions you will ask and the hypotheses or propositions you will examine.

Example: As a result of (Author, Date findings) this research proposes that there will be a strong and positive relationship of XXX to XXX. Where relevant, discuss approaches to hypothesis testing and goodness of fit.

Conclusion: recap the problem, state the purpose, and indicate how answering the research questions will lead to a solution to the identified problem. Restate how your research is worthwhile and will advance current knowledge.

Appendices

You may include your concept map, search strategy screenshots, or visuals from Assessment 1 as appendices to support this submission.

Referencing

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