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This writer has continued to search for more literature this unit. This writer has a lot of relevant information for her action research, however, as she continues to find relevant information other ideas come to mind. This writer is hoping to be completed with all the research collection by the end of this unit. Last unit, this writer began to develop an outline for all the already collected information. This unit as this writer continues to review literature she is working out on how much qualitative work vs. quantitative work she wants to include in her research project.

Pan (2017) discusses in chapter 11 the importance of including tables to match qualitative narratives written in the research project. Pan (2017) also suggest when including tables in the research project to ensure it isn’t isolated, or included without a narrative regardless if it is qualitative or quantitative data. Since this writer has gathered a lot of literature she is also considering building a table to compare the statistic from varies studies as suggested by Pan (2017). As many of my peers have mentioned, the flow of the project is important to maintain reader interest. This writer is working on enhancing her outline as well as developing tables to ensure she has an appropriate structure and flow of the project.

Reference

Pan, L. (2017). Preparing literature reviews. (5th ed.). Routledge.

I am feeling like I have too much material to work with and that I may want to zoom in on my research case. Through my sifting of material to find relevant literature and assessing its relevance in the form of primary and secondary sources, I need to determine how I may make a contribution to what has proceeded me, and what I can expand upon or narrow in on (Sheperis et al., 2017). I need to find ways to organize my notes and manage my sources as recommended (Sheperis et al., 2017). The process of organizing and presenting the information should follow a framework of an introduction with a basic intro to the topic, the population, a problem statement, and my purpose (Sheperis et al., 2017). The body of the literature review will begin with a broad explanation of my topic, and then break down into more specifics organized in different sections, and into the main purpose, which would include a summary of what is already known and unknown, what the significance of the problem is, and outline my research question (Sheperis et al., 2017).

I have been zoning in on what do women involved in the sex industry want and need? Different searches in Post’s Library are sometimes very helpful, but other times I get too many results. Search words of “sex industry or sex work or prostitution” and “leaving” and “getting out” was a place that I started, but that search alone returned over 400,000 entries. In filtering down and removing the irrelevant resources, I did find a book I am interested in reading, “Leaving Prostitution: Getting Out and Staying Out of Sex Work” (Oselin, 2014). By adding a more specific population of “stripper or exotic dancer or stripping,” I narrowed my topic to 70,000 entries. If I rearrange my key words and place “leaving” and “getting out” first, my sources narrow down to about 300 items, and focusing on just the last fifteen years brings the list to 250.

I am starting to think I would like to reign in my action research project to working just with legal sex work, not because I do not believe prostitution should not be decriminalized, and I know those specific sex workers need a lot of assistance, but I think if I zero in on a specific field like legal sex work, that I may make my project more manageable. Pan (2016) recommends narrowing a broad topic by adding delimitations. My literature review could then maybe contribute to the current literature in the field by focusing more narrowly on the population of women in the United States who are specifically by choice working in the entertainment venue of the sex industry in exotic dancing and pornography. The focus would not be on sex trafficking or prostitution, but more specifically on what draws women into sex as entertainment, why they enter the field, and how to help those who want to leave the business in a healthy way or stay in the industry but feel less stigma. As I added to my search, “NOT sex trafficking,” I was able to get my list of sources down to a manageable 62 items. Although my topic right now may seem to cover a small population overall, I would like to determine how serious an issue this is and how others and myself might be able to assist in this mission for women who need help and to support women from entering potentially more dangerous and harmful work. It’s interesting that I am noting resistance coming up about maybe dropping off illegal sex work from my study because then it feels like I am almost stigmatizing prostitutes in a roundabout way.

References

Oselin, S. (2014). Leaving prostitution: Getting out and staying out of sex work. NYU Press.

Pan, M. L. (2016). Preparing Literature Reviews. (5th ed.). Routledge.

Sheperis, C.J., Young, J.S., & Daniels, M. H. (2017). Counseling research: Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. (2nd ed.). Pearson Education, Inc.