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B. Preliminary Literature Review
Identify the areas that will be covered in the literature review and why. Identify what key terms and data bases will be or have been searched. Use and build upon the outline that you prepared in the assignment on conducting a literature review as the outline for this section of your research proposal. If the 3 articles that you critiqued for the second assignment are applicable to your problem statement discuss their significance to your study in the preliminary literature review section. The preliminary literature review section presents the initial conceptual framework to focus the study. It identifies the need for the study by identifying gaps in knowledge. "The literature review frequently cites broad areas of scholarly thinking--sociological, psychological, anthropological, or political--with representative scholars, and it illustrates why certain concepts may become relevant in data collection and analysis. . . The literature review clearly justifies the need for an in-depth descriptive study using an ethnographic approach" (p. 574). The literature review is not exhaustive.
C. Foreshadowed Problems
These are stated as broad, anticipated research questions to be reformulated in the field.
