How to Use Technology to Organize Your Lit Review

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Using Technology to Organize Your Literature Review

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THEORETICAL BASE: SOCIALIZATION

AGENDA

1. Overview the Process 2.Organization: Find Your Themes3. Data capture:

1.Bibliographic software2. Spreadsheet

4. How to read efficiently5. 1:1 correspondence with methodology 6. Rough spots – what to expect?7. The personal traits that will stand you in good

stead

THE PROCESSREAD – ORGANIZE – READ – COMPARE – READ – ETC.

ORGANIZATION: FIND YOUR THEMESEXPECT THEM TO CHANGE AS THEY MOVE DOWN THE FUNNEL

Reading anything even loosely related to what interests you

General Themes

Specific Themes

Gaps To Be Filled By Your Study

TOOL #1

1. Folders, Themes, Groups2. Places for notes, abstracts3. To which you attached pdfs4. Which can also be highlighted5. Collaboration may be an issue as well

GOOD BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE

TOOL #2

Rows are the references Columns are themes, including methodology they used in their studyRows are used for their ideas/your ideas churned up by their ideas/ quotes you might like to useYour process while reading is the rowsYour process while writing is contained in the columnsGaps come to light when you read the columns

SPREADSHEET ANALYSIS OF THEMES / IDEAS

IMPROVING YOUR READING

Skill improvement/center columnTie to methodologyAbility to sort out what you don’t want as much as what you do

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1:1 CORRESPONDENCE

Logic of Design ToolArticles search

TOPICS IN LITERATURE WITH METHDOLOGY

ROUGH SPOTS

1. Your voice not theirs2. What you want to say, based on what they did before

you3. Surfacing the whole story, not just the part you like4. Surfacing what others did before you, upon which

you can build5. Journey: Leading your reader through a complex

stream of ideas out to where your methodology makes perfect sense.

IMPROVING YOUR WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

PERSONAL TRAITSWHAT TESTS YOU NOW?

MEMORYORGANIZATIONCRITICAL ANALYSISSYNTHESISARGUMENT

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