2. So Far…
• Explored interests
• Defined direction
• Discussed topics and narrowed to a more
specific focus
3. Literature Research
• Informs your understanding of your topic to aid in
developing the study design
• Informs your understanding of the issues at stake
as you encounter them during your research
• Informs your analysis and interpretation of the
data
• Signals your readers that you are knowledgable
and reliable as an informed researcher
4. Literature Research
• Is ongoing throughout the study up to and
sometimes including the data analysis portion
of research
• Contents may shift depending on what
happens during actual research
• Should be continuously referred to as you
pursue your study
5. Literature Review
• “Mini-review” will accompany HREB
application
• Annotated bibliography from ARE 717 will
provide a pool of resources to build from
• Literature review outline from ARE 717 will aid
in developing literature review during thesis
year
6. A Word About Scholarly Resources 1
• Peer reviewed academic journals
– Online, open access, or print (Ex. Studies in Art
Education; Visual Arts Research Journal; Art Education
Journal; Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the
Arts)
• Scholarly books published by an academic press
– University Presses (MIT, Yale, Teachers
College, University of Chicago, etc.)
– Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Polity, Sage, Darder
Baltadano, Norton, Lang, Lawrence Erlbaum
7. A Word About Scholarly Resources 2
• Not acceptable:
– Blogs
– Websites that lack peer review (unless approved
by instructor)
– Popular-audience books (ex. A Whole New Mind
by Daniel Pink; Art and Fear by David Bayles and
Ted Orland)
– Articles from non-peer reviewed journals
8. This Week
• Assignment 1
– Clear statement of focus
• NOT a Main Research Question (MRQ) or research statement
– Identify 8-10 important areas you need to research to
develop research questions from an informed
perspective
– Identify 3 top priorities with reasons
– Identify 4 literature resources for each of the 3 top
priorities
– Explain relevance of each resource
10. How to Find Resources 1
• Sojourner Truth Library Website
– Databases
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Proquest Research Library
Education Source
Academic Search Premiere
JSTOR
11. How to Find Resources 2
• Searching
– Author name
– Key words
• Anywhere, title, abstract
• Chasing references
• Browsing academic journals
– Title begins with…
– Title contains all words…
– Journal you’ve seen other articles in
12. How to Find Resources 3
• Ask a librarian
– http://www.newpaltz.libanswers.com
• Pose a question to the group via email
• Pose a question to me (and the group) via
Discussion Board > Beth
13. How (and how not) to Read
• Articles
– Abstracts
– Skim article
• Note article structure, headings and subheadings
– Skim list of resources cited in article
• Books
– Table of Contents
– Skim introduction and potentially relevant chapters
• Note chapter structure, headings, subheadings
– Skim index
– Skim bibliography
14. How to Justify Decisions
• Refer back to your concept map
• Consider ways the resource can provide you with
– New information
– Substantiate/back up/add to information you are
already familiar with
– Present ideas that offer a counter-perspective to ideas
you are familiar with
• Consider the “weight” of the resource in the field
or subject area
17. Post 5
• Read Post 5 description
• Read Assignment 1 description
• Carry out Assignment 1
– Note this is due by midnight Wednesday February
25
• Return to Post 5
– Post on blog
– Note this is due by midnight Sunday February 22
– Responses due by midnight Wednesday Feb 25
18. Looking Ahead
• Week 6
– Reading
• Creswell Ch 6
• Merriam pp. 55-60
• Choose 3 of the sources you’re listing in Assignment 1
to read closely and annotate
Notas del editor
So far you’ve been exploring your interests and defining direction. I’ve had a chance to speak with most of you about your research; you’ll use those conversations this week as you begin to look for literature that will help inform your questions.
This semester you’ll write a very short literature review of around 200 words that will accompany your HREB application. You’ll also develop a substantial annotated bibliography that will help you over the summer and next year as you develop your literature review. Finally, you’ll use the annotated bibliography to develop a literature review outline to help you plan out the literature review that you’ll write next year. This week’s work gets you started on the path toward developing the annotated bibliography and also helps you inform yourself as you get closer to writing your Main Resaerch question and subquestions.
You’ll be looking for literature supports this week that are related to your studies, but before you do that that we need to talk briefly about the kinds of resources that you’ll be looking for. Although there are a number of different kinds of resources that can be remarkably interesting and informative, what we’re looking for here are scholarly academic resources. These can come from…
Some resources that are not acceptable include…However, these might be good starting places. For example, I use Wikipedia regularly as a place to look for good, scholarly resources around particular topics. If I found what looks like a good resource in a Wikipedia article, I follow the resource, check its credentials, and if its up to snuff and it meets my needs, I go from there.