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Mastering Literature Review: Researcher's Guide to Engaging with Cutting-Edge Research

This guide explores the essential strategies for conducting a thorough literature review as a researcher, including reading habits, communication techniques, using bibliographic databases, and organizing and writing the review effectively. It emphasizes the importance of understanding current research, identifying gaps, and contributing to the flow of knowledge in your field.

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Mastering Literature Review: Researcher's Guide to Engaging with Cutting-Edge Research

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  1. Connecting to Literature Keeping up with the Joneses Preparing the Review of Literature

  2. Who am I? Who are you? Researcher at a research institution Responsibilities • At the edge of what we know • Engage the cutting edges of research • Contribute to the flow of learning I live in the literature

  3. Reading habits • Have a day you read • Monitor new research • Building your library: reading upon arrival • Setting alerts: journal, author, subject • Book reviews: Which journals? • Choosing a level: Walliman, p. 60 • Read for findings and methods • Don’t forget note cards and abstracts

  4. In communication Walliman, pp. 51-53 • Library catalogs: Ours/Scholar/Worldcat • Journal of abstracts: No good ones; in jrnls • Index journal: No gd one • Bibliographic database: • EBSCO – Communication and Mass Media Complete • CIOS (not through our library) • InfoWorld • Comm Yearbook; Rev of Comm

  5. Products • Bibliography: Walliman, p. 87 • For further reading • By subject • Abstracting: Walliman, p. 64 • Journal: Fixing vs. Reviewing • Great ideas folder • By subject?

  6. Reading for the project • Getting started: • Roping • Time per source • Stranding • Backward w/ notes • Forward w/ Scholar • The ten card method

  7. The Research Tornado Reading to find your research question • Read to understand the subject • Read critically • Read to reveal what we know now • Read toward unanswered or next question There is your research question

  8. The Research Onion: What? • Studies answering my question • Studies contextualizing my question • Studies working w/ my concepts

  9. The Research Onion: Who? • Has anyone done my study? • Who are my immediate interlocutors? • Who are our ancestors? • Who has ideas that might help me?

  10. Dangers • The Ocean Problem • 3x5 paper dolls • The unmotivated report

  11. Internet savvy • Vetted Sources • Using non-vetted sources • Wikipaedia • Know the author • Collect reliable sources

  12. Organizing for the Review • Lumping the work • Patterns of Assembly • Serial: Concept by concept; variable by variable • Discovery Narrative • Theory Development Narrative • Outlining • I. Points are always arguments, not studies

  13. Writing the Review • Where does it appear? • Introduction setting the problem • Separate Section culminating in RQ • Conceptualization Section • Texture of writing: Inquiry/Study • Question to Answer • Argument to Support • Lacuna to Fill

  14. A good Rev of Lit is one that convinces your reader that: • No one has previously done what you plan to do; answered your question • You have identified the line of inquiry that will read and respond to your work • You understand the literature of your inquiry; the literature that surrounds your question. • Your study is important to the line of inquiry

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