HTR 741 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Literature Review

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Course: HTR 741
• Professor: Tom Griffin

Document Summary

Reviewing the scholarly literature and planning a study (chapter 4) Introduction: how to organize and synthesize the findings, collection of studies serves several important functions, helps narrow down a broad topic by showing how others conducted their studies. From studies of others, you can learn the key ideas, terms and issues surrounding the topic: often stimulates creativity and curiosity, a published study offers an example of what the final report on a study should look like. How to find research literature: researchers present report in; books, periodicals, dissertations, government documents or policy reports they are presented at meetings of professional societies, mostly found only in university and colleges. Books best first place to search for books that are relevant to your topic is the library"s electronic catalogue. Periodicals: with skills, be able to distinguish among scholarly academic journals and the other various types of periodicals, peer-reviewed, empirical research findings appears only in the scholarly academic journals.