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Exploiting Rapid Change in Technology
Enhanced Learning
… for Post Graduate Education
Using Technology to Organize Your Literature Review
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Help masters and doctoral students be more productive.
By giving you tools the tools you need 24/7 so you can be completely comfortable throughout your academic process, In skill building and So you can maintain your motivation throughout
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
TWO WEBINARS
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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