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Module 4 No-prep Journal

Module 4 No-prep Journal

Q Each no-prep journal is based on your pre-existing knowledge. You don’t need to read anything in the module before completing it. I am just interested in your thoughts about the topics we are about to embark on. Actually, this journal will be a reflection on your literature review and peer review work. Please COMPLETE your peer review (Exercise 3d) before you work on this journal entry. Write a short (2-3 paragraphs) essay answering the following questions: • What were the most difficult things for you in preparing for and writing your literature review? (feel free to discuss your specific topic and sources, since other students won't see your journal entry) • Did the process of peer review help you better understand how to improve your own literature review? (this question will help you prepare for the final project for this course) • Now, that you have had some time to reflect on the content of the articles that you used for your literature review, do you have a good idea for proposing your own study to answer some still unanswered research questions? (this question will help you prepare even better for the final project for this course) • Did you actually read the Data and Methods sections of the articles or just skipped them over? :) (in this module, we will dig deeper into why sampling and measures are important to understand when reading research articles) Only you and the instructor/TA will be able to see journal entries. They are graded based on how thoughtful and to-the-point they are.

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Sometimes it is challenging to prepare and write the literature review because you need to have critical analysis by coordinating more than one source (Cooper et al., 2018). When writing a literature review, you may be dealing with some topics and ideas that you have not mastered, and it needs a lot of time to understand the topic for you to evaluate the work well. Some of the literature has limited transparency regarding the methodology used, and it becomes difficult to review the work (Snyder, 2019). It is also challenging to write a literature review when you do not know the process of writing the work review.