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y reinforce those of the other three studies.” Questions to ask about what you read: ? What has been done and by whom? ? How do the studies relate to each other . Do studies group together? ? What does each study do that the others do not do? ? What is useful about these studies? ? Can you identify any limitations or shortings of the studies? (. scope, sample) ? Any problems with procedure, method, data, analysis, theory, reporting, etc. How C amp。 J do this: ? What has been done by whom? . “Jones and Shoemaker (1994), for example, identify 36 thematic and 32 readability studies up to 1993.” () ? How do studies group together? . () “The study of accounting narratives is an important subset of the accounting literature.” “In accounting, four US studies investigate and find evidence of …” “Salancik and Meindl?s (1984) results broadly reinforce those of the other three studies.” What do some studies do that others do not? . “Finally, Clapham and Schwenk (1991) investigate the president?s letters of panies in the US electricity and gas utility sector from 197882. Although they follow Salancik and Meindl?s methodology, they find some differences from them in the pattern of results between stable and unstable firms. Overall, however, they find that …” () Limitations or shortings of the studies? (. scope, sample) . “Although these studies find some evidence of attribution in the US in the 1980s, t