Review the Get & Stay Organized? webpage, focusing on how to set up a search log. Review the Literature Review Matrix? webpage, focusing on how to set up a

To prepare:

• Review the “Get & Stay Organized” webpage, focusing on how to set up a search log.
• Review the “Literature Review Matrix” webpage, focusing on how to set up a literature review matrix.

Assignment (Search Log and Literature Review Matrix)

• Create a search log document you will use to organize and manage research sources relevant to a social and/or research problem in your area of research interest.
• Create a literature review matrix using one of the templates (i.e., Word or Excel) provided on the “Literature Review Matrix” webpage in the Learning Resources. You will use the literature review matrix to organize and manage literature sources relevant to a social and/or research problem in your area of research interest.
• Include on your search log and literature review matrix a study that is relevant and related to the social problem in which you are interested. In the search log, describe the researcher’s process in developing their study. Discuss how they justified the research problem and related question.