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Tag Archives: Literatures
not reading everything
Last week was the first week of teaching. New class. New co-teacher. And for the third year running, the course has been redesigned. From a mix of online and face to face, to all on line, and now all face … Continue reading
Posted in literature mapping, literature reviews, reading, scan-reading
Tagged Literatures, Pat Thomson, reading, reading choices
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finding debates and discussions in the literature
Working with literatures? One of the things you’re advised to do by people like me is to identify debates and discussions. That’s because you are very likely to want to contribute to a discussion. And to do this you will … Continue reading
reading against the literatures – #litreview
Advice on literature reviews pretty well always say something like – the literature review should say what’s already been said about your topic – or – you need to bring together the particular literatures that your study is going to … Continue reading
keeping up with the literatures – preliminary sorting is key
This post is in response to a question about how to keep on top of what is being published I found out early on that academic work required finding ways to deal with a load of information. My undergraduate honours … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, Browzine, literature review, reading
Tagged categorising, keeping up with literatures, Literatures, Pat Thomson, reading, selecting, sorting
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orientations to reading – the literature as ‘resources’
Everyone knows that doing research means doing lots of reading. And that Reading leads to literature reviews which are crucial to research proposals, theses and papers. The most common way to think about working with the literatures is to use … Continue reading
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