1. TATIONpRÆSEN AARHUS UNIVERSITY The Role of the Literature Review TINE WIRENFELDT JENSEN CENTER FOR TEACHING DEVELOPMENT & DIGITAL MEDIA AARHUS UNIVERSITY 1

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3. AARHUS UNIVERSITY A RUBRIC FOR THE QUALITY OF A LITERATURE REVIEW In pairs: look at Lovitts general criteria for a literature review and discuss how these relate to your field 3

4. AARHUS UNIVERSITY OUTSTANDING LITERATURE REVIEWS Identifies and organizes analysis around themes or conceptual categories Lovitts, 2007 4

5. AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEMONSTRATING ORIGINALITY › Requires knowledge of the subject area › Requires a spirit of adventure (a willingness to explore new areas) Hart, 1998 5

6. AARHUS UNIVERSITY MAPPING AND ANALYSING IDEAS 6 Mapping […] enables analysis and synthesis to be undertaken; in mapping work on a topic, you undertake the task of construction, putting together the different strands and elements of work that make up a body of knowledge on the subject. Hart, p. 142

7. AARHUS UNIVERSITY A REFLEXIVE ATTITUDE We need to take a technical and reflexive attitude to classification, seeking to produce a symmetry between organizing ideas in the literature and thinking about how we have carried out that organizing. Hart, p. 14 7

8. AARHUS UNIVERSITY DIFFERENT TYPES OF MAPS › Feature maps › Tree constructions › Content maps › Taxonomic maps › Rhetorical mapping and analysis › Citation mapping and analysis › Mindmapping › Building a case for your approach › Your own categories and ways to model relationships between them › Drawing as a method 8

9. AARHUS UNIVERSITY REFERENCES › Hart C. (1998) Doing a literature review: releasing the social science research imagination. Sage Publications › Lovitss B. (2007) Making the Implicit Explicit. Stylus. › The Study Metro. http://studiemetro.au.dk/en/. 9