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Category Archives: scan-reading
literatures work – and a pair of new shoes…
It’s September and the Autumn equinox. To mark the occasion, I took my new pair of lace-up boots out of their box and gave them their first wearing/airing. Now anyone who knows me knows that I always have a pair … Continue reading
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beginning the literature review: the art of scan-reading
It’s important at the start of a piece of research to try to get a sense of the field – to establish the kinds of articles and books that are going to be useful. This is often a particularly hard … Continue reading
Posted in coherence, literature review, reading, scan-reading
Tagged coherence, literature review, Pat Thomson, reading, scan-reading
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