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The Role of the Literature Review

TINE WIRENFELDT JENSENCENTER FOR TEACHING DEVELOPMENT & DIGITAL MEDIAAARHUS UNIVERSITY

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A RUBRIC FOR THE QUALITY OF A LITERATURE REVIEW

In pairs: look at Lovitts general criteria for a literature review and discuss how these relate to your field

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OUTSTANDING LITERATURE REVIEWS

Identifies and organizes analysis around themes or conceptual categories

Lovitts, 2007

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DEMONSTRATING ORIGINALITY

› Requires knowledge of the subject area

› Requires a spirit of adventure (a willingness to explore new areas)

Hart, 1998

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MAPPING AND ANALYSING IDEAS

Mapping […] enables analysis and synthesis to be undertaken; in mapping work on a topic, you undertake the task of construction, putting together the different strands and elements of work that make up a body of knowledge on the subject.

Hart, p. 142

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A REFLEXIVE ATTITUDE

We need to take a technical and reflexive attitude to classification, seeking to produce a symmetry between organizing ideas in the literature and thinking about how we have carried out that organizing.

Hart, p. 14

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DIFFERENT TYPES OF MAPS

› Feature maps› Tree constructions› Content maps› Taxonomic maps› Rhetorical mapping and analysis› Citation mapping and analysis

› Mindmapping› Building a case for your approach› Your own categories and ways to model relationships between them

› Drawing as a method

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REFERENCES

› Hart C. (1998) Doing a literature review: releasing the social science research imagination. Sage Publications

› Lovitss B. (2007) Making the Implicit Explicit. Stylus.

› The Study Metro. http://studiemetro.au.dk/en/.