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WRTG 391 WEEK 5
DISCUSSIONS LATEST-UMUC
WRTG 391 Week 5 Discussions Latest-UMUC
WRTG391
WRTG 391 Week 5 Discussions Latest-UMUC
DQ 1
Developing Categories for the Literature Review
Here are lots of resources to help students understand the
Literature Review. Please browse these resources and then complete the
discussion post below.
The article by Ted Zorn and Nittaya Campbell, “Improving the
Writing of Literature Reviews through Literature Integration Exercise” — this
article is available in the e-reserves section of this class (and for those of
you in the Week 4 Face-to-Face class I handed this out). To access the article,
please take the following steps:
click Content
select Class Resources
select eReserves
select the icon for eReserves in the middle of your page.
in the list of items that appears, locate this article and
download it.
The tutorial from The University of North Carolina on writing
literature reviews. It is linked to at the top of the Content for this week.
The tutorial from UMUC’s Effective Writing Center on writing the
literature review. It is linked to at the top of the Content for this week.
Task:
After reviewing the material on the Literature Review posted
above, please return to your annotated bibliography and begin developing
“categories” to help you to organize your sources. Post one category below and
list several sources that might fill that category. Remember that some sources
may fall into more than one category.
Please respond generously to at least one of your fellow
classmates using 1+1 feedback format of providing one compliment on an aspect
of the post that is strong or noteworthy and why and providing one suggestion
on how the content in the post could be stronger perhaps in some way with the
possible themes the student is brainstorming about their topic.
DQ 2
Visual Mapping — Applying the Spider Diagram
You can use a “Spider Diagram” to help you to structure your
discussion of sources in The Literature Review as well as to brainstorm the
niches and gaps in the research literature. A spider diagram is a visual tool
usually used for planning your writing. However, you can also use it for
evaluating and thinking about a topic in detail.
NOTE: Embedded here below are some excellent examples of
previous Spider Diagrams for a boost.
Lindahl_visualmap
Print out your Literature Review notes and grab a blank piece of
paper.
For more information on the Spider Diagram, please visit the
link at the top of this week’s Content, Spider Diagrams: How and Why They Work.
Task:
Write your idea/title/topic/thesis in the center of a piece of
paper. Draw a circle around it. For the purposes of this exercise, you will use
the topic of your Literature Review.
Draw a “leg” from the central “body” of your Literature Review
topic towards the top right hand corner of the page. Label this “leg” with the
first topic/category that you dealt with in your Review.
Add more legs moving clockwise around the page until all the
sections have been included, with the final one being somewhere near the top
left of the page.
Now divide each “leg” up into smaller “legs” with all the points
that you made in each section. (Again work clockwise from the top left so that
the sequence of ideas is maintained).
Finally, please be sure that one section is devoted to
identifying any gaps or niches in the research literature in your synthesis of
sources essay (literature review), or WA#3.
You may have to redraw your spider diagram several times until
you find a structure that works for you. Make sure that you find a proposal
structure that suits the needs of your Niches and Gaps paper. Please post your
spider diagram below.
Respond to this discussion topic with one paragraph describing
how this task might have helped you or why it did not help you in organizing
your thoughts for WA#3.
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