Deck 31: Writing a Literature Review

Question 1

A literature review should make apparent to the reader how the research represents a logical next step in building knowledge and/or how the research fills a critical gap in an area of knowledge.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

An unsystematic review is a type of general literature review.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Scoping reviews are a type of general literature review.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The process for conducting a systematic review includes examining all articles against the preidentified criteria for relevance, inclusion, and exclusion.

Question 5

Writers should allocate less optimal or smaller blocks of time for the more mundane or concrete aspects of writing.

Question 6

The first step in mind-mapping is to identify the most important parts of the mind-map by assigning priorities to the information contained in it.

Question 7

Systematic reviews have all of the following characteristics except for which?

A) They are focused on evaluating the quality of all other research studies of a strictly defined scientific topic or question.
B) They are exhaustive and thorough in research effort.
C) They are focused on eliminating bias in the review by using an objective and transparent methodological approach to information synthesis.
D) They are presentations of new and advanced knowledge of the topic area.

Question 8

Authors may choose to assign each study a rating of methodological quality according to certain criteria. All of the following are popular criteria used within occupational therapy literature except for:

A) The Cochrane Collaboration criteria
B) The Brown mind-mapping criteria
C) The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses criteria
D) The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre criteria

Question 9

Scoping reviews have all of the following characteristics except for which?

A) They collect as much evidence as possible in a broad clinical or policy-related area.
B) They do not address very specific questions or assess the quality of the studies that are included in the review.
C) They inform a range of study designs.
D) They act as a precursor to planned research or as an introduction to an executed study.

Question 10

Which of the following is not a central aim of a general literature review?

A) To establish the impact and relevance of the research question.
B) To build a rationale for the proposed study to be conducted or reported.
C) To assess the quality of all other research studies of a defined scientific question.
D) To build a rationale for future research.

Question 11

Key strategies for anyone who wishes to become an effective research writer include all of the following except for which?

A) Mind-mapping and abstracting
B) Discovering and developing one's own writing style and habits
C) Eliminating bias by using an objective and transparent methodological approach
D) Drafting, sequencing, and rewriting

Question 12

Which of the following is not part of knowing one's own writing patterns?

A) Rereading drafts at least once as a whole with an eye toward editing
B) Paying attention to when one gets the most writing done
C) Knowing at what time one has difficulty writing
D) Utilizing one's spare time as writing times, rather than scheduling time for writing

Question 13

Readers do not know what a writer knows, and thus a paper needs to be written and edited with the reader's perspective in mind. This includes all of the following aspects of the reader except for which?

A) Their knowledge base
B) Their interests
C) Their political viewpoints
D) Their expectations

Question 14

Critical appraisal of literature typically assists with all of the following except for which?

A) Refining a visual representation of the ideas to be contained in a paper
B) Identifying the boundaries of the literature
C) Evaluating the strengths of existing research approaches to studying the topic
D) Illuminating the gaps in the current knowledge base and the way in which it has developed