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Category Archives: scoping
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
Posted in literature mapping, literature review, literature reviews, mapping, reading, scan-reading, scoping, Uncategorized
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focusing in on blogging literatures part two – #acwrimo work in progress
This is the sixth post about the literature review I am doing about academic blogging for a paper/project with Thesis Whisperer. I’m working to a short time frame, and using a three-stage approach – scoping, mapping and focusing in. I … Continue reading
Posted in academic blogging, acwrimo, blogging, blogging taxonomy, focusing in, interpretation, scoping
Tagged academic blogging, focusing in, literature review, Pat Thomson
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literature review step one, scoping. #acwrimo work in progress
One of the things that we all have to do when starting a piece of research is to find out what else has been said about our topic. This is usually called the literature review, although I prefer to think … Continue reading
Posted in academic blogging, disciplines, journal, literature review, scoping, search
Tagged academic blogging, journals, literature review, Pat Thomson, scoping, search, Thesis Whisperer
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