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I had a three hour nap this evening and I am not tired enough to go to sleep yet, so I am going to listen to Paradis and write a thread on the value of the ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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One of my undergraduate students asked me tonight what I would recommend for him.
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One of my undergraduate students asked me tonight what I would recommend for him.
He was looking for a way to show everything he had read. Personally, I don't think a student should write a literature review BEFORE writing an annotated bibliography. Allow me to explain why.
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2017/01/literature-reviews-annotated-bibliographies-and-conceptual-synthetic-tables/
A literature review requires the student to digest it all.
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2017/01/literature-reviews-annotated-bibliographies-and-conceptual-synthetic-tables/
A literature review requires the student to digest it all.
For me, an annotated bibliography and a bank (or set) of rhetorical precis (or a bank of article and book chapter summaries written in index cards) is the prerequisite step BEFORE writing the literature review.
Often times, my students simply prefer to show me their Excel Dump.
Often times, my students simply prefer to show me their Excel Dump.
This is my post on the Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dump (CSED) http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/06/synthesizing-different-bodies-of-work-in-your-literature-review-the-conceptual-synthesis-excel-dump-technique/
I am a very visual person, have quasi-eidetic memory, so to me, seeing their CSED on screen allows me to get a snapshot of what my students have read and what they've learned from each reading.
I am a very visual person, have quasi-eidetic memory, so to me, seeing their CSED on screen allows me to get a snapshot of what my students have read and what they've learned from each reading.
IF a student feels more comfortable with a more detailed document than CSED, then I recommend that they do a series of rhetorical precis and THEN dump those notes either in a Word document, or that they write an AB.
My post on Rhetorical Precis. http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/10/using-the-rhetorical-precis-for-literature-reviews-and-conceptual-syntheses/
My post on Rhetorical Precis. http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/10/using-the-rhetorical-precis-for-literature-reviews-and-conceptual-syntheses/
Personally, I very strongly believe that Annotated Bibliographies are legitimate scholarly outputs. For one of my projects on water conflicts, I asked one of my research assistants to produce an annotated bibliography on the sociological concept of "framing" and "Frame Analysis"
Journals would probably never publish an annotated bibliography, but granting agencies DO accept them as legitimate research outputs.
My post on how to write an annotated bibliography
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2017/04/writing-an-annotated-bibliography/
I view producing AB's on a topic and posting them on to a website...
My post on how to write an annotated bibliography
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2017/04/writing-an-annotated-bibliography/
I view producing AB's on a topic and posting them on to a website...
... as a public service. I am overwhemed with deadlines, but I think that over the summer, I am going to produce an Annotated Bibliography on Comparative Ethnography.
What's the value of ABs for other scholars? Anybody who downloads and reads my AB now has a STARTING POINT.
What's the value of ABs for other scholars? Anybody who downloads and reads my AB now has a STARTING POINT.
Anybody who reads my AB on Comparative Ethnography can say "oh wow, there's X author and Y author, and Z book and W chapter, and those are probably the first ones I should read". It saves time for other scholars (including my own students).
It also helps fellow academics and practitioners do citation tracing as they may see fit, until they reach conceptual saturation.
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/06/how-to-do-a-literature-review-citation-tracing-concept-saturation-and-results-mind-mapping/
Now, what about literature reviews (particularly published ones)? Well, there's a place for those too.
http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/06/how-to-do-a-literature-review-citation-tracing-concept-saturation-and-results-mind-mapping/
Now, what about literature reviews (particularly published ones)? Well, there's a place for those too.
