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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 IDEASMapping […] 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 ATTITUDEWe 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/.