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4: Conducting a Literature Review

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    Whether you plan to engage in clinical, administrative, or policy practice, all social workers must be able to look at the available literature on a topic and synthesize the relevant facts into a coherent review. Literature reviews can have a powerful effect, for example by providing the factual basis for a new program or policy in an agency or government. In your own research proposal, conducting a thorough literature review will help you build strong arguments for why your topic is important and why your research question must be answered.

    This chapter discusses or mentions the following topics: homelessness, suicide, depression, LGBTQ oppression, drug use, and psychotic disorders.

    This page titled 4: Conducting a Literature Review is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Matthew DeCarlo (Open Social Work Education) .

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