Issues this week:
Am finding the information re the lit review less than helpful
Course marks - frustrating - having difficulty with lack of feedback - what did I do well - what do I need to improve on? No annotation on assignments, no feedback in either area. Is work being marked to rubric. Never had marks like this - very very despondant.
Course Material:
Video
what is it
Major works on the narrow topic: published peer reviewed papers on the topic
Reviewed:major points, outcomes, themes - not a detailed write up of the source - a snap shot of it = relationship betwen snapshots extracting just the major elements and then the relationship among those elements
Purpose
improve your understanding - build background and expertise,
demonstrate - knowledge and expertise
reader update - bringing reader up to date
Filling in the key elements and whats going on now
Writing process
Chronological - time period of different information and discoveries
Advancements - advancements in breakthourhg or capabiltiy
Questions - what are the major questions relating to this topic through the years - number and then address each question
Collect sources - academic peer reviewed sources
Analyze sourcers - what is worth the time and energy - skim, scan, what catches your eye - then extend to what is relevent to topic, and you are going to use
Arrange find patterns, themes or questions, make an outline, list major sources that have a pattern,
Summarize sources and providing trasitional connections between each source as you move
Common errors when conducting a lit review - video
Michael Quinn Patton, PhD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiDHOr3NHRADraw on the knowledge and contributions of other people, to determine where our our knowledge and contribution sits.
Purpose is to understnad your intellectual heritage/geneology ; we are building on the knowmledge of others, we need to know what that knowledge is; what work has come before us, what concepts we have inherited, methods and measures we have inherited, some we have adopted some we have parted from - we need to know what we have done, which ones and why: at the end we are going to expected to locate your work within a tradition; need to be able to identify the people who formed the basic distinctions that you are drawing on.
Common mistakes
- Doing an internet search to get loads of sources.- the quality is what is important and your engagement with these - so you can identify what is useful and relevant and position yourself out of traditions that others have engaged in - goal is not to be different or original
- Trying to say this research is unique and nothing elase has been written about it - you stand on the shoulders of the giants who have rsearched this topic - narrowly and braodly before you. There are original burning questions that have defined all fields/ areas that you can call on - and that go back to the original notion of any subject area. You need to know who the classic people where who were asking those questions, who were their disciples, who and where were the breakaways/ splits when groups went in different directions - up to recent work that has just been done and even work that hasn't get been published - can you get in touch with people doing research in the area you are looking at. find out what is being researched and funded now. Then you can say these are the people on who's shoulders i stand,these are the intellectual traditions, this is my intellectual DNA, this is what I have drawn on, here are the palces where I am departing from others , and here is wher I am going to make my contribution. Thats the purpose of a lit review - you are positioning yourself in a stream or flow of knowledge
- Only citing/reading 2nd or 3rd hand accounts of the classics: the classics are classics because the thinking in them is profound - the findings may be datd - however youa re learnning how scientists, scholars and researchers think. look for the methods, how did particular findings come form methods - mthod - finding linkage, how did methods develop over time - how did the classic thinkers/writers think about things and enquire into things. What knowledge/understnading can you gain from their inquiry, observations, conclusions, and findings. exquistic detailed research. Dedication to careful case notes and recordings.Understnad the methodogical greats, their foundation of knowledge. the teoretical stream - findings adn constructs. Methodogical stream - recording etc - rich inheritance as scholar practitioners. - know what intellectual heritage is
