1. Beyond the Court Research for Academic or Professional Publication

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4. Goals & Objectives Through this session my goals are: To further your professional or academic writing project planning, To provide you with better research tools to support your writing project. By the end of this session I expect: You will have a clearer plan for your research project. You will have a framework for conducting your literature review. You will understand how filter, evaluate, and manage your sources. You will be comfortable grounding your research in your sources.

6. What do you want to write? Book Review “A Good Place to Start” Descriptive or Critical Article “Short & To The Point” Comment, Report or Review Book Chapter “Soldiers All In A Row” Festschrift or Theme Book “A Full Meal Deal” Monograph or Collection

7. Book Reviews Where do you find opportunities for reviewing? Societies Journals Where do you find Reviews in Law Index to Canadian Legal Literature Book Reviews LegalTrac Book Reviews Index to Legal Periodicals Book Reviews Types of Reviews Descriptive Critical

8. Book Reviews 2 Reviewing Essentials Description of the book. Discuss the author. Appraise the book. Review Outline Opening paragraphs Thesis Authorial purpose Topicality of the work or its significance Comparison of the work to others Author Body of the review Concluding paragraphs

10. The Literature Review “A Research literature review is a systematic, explicit, and reproducible method for identifying, evaluating, and synthesizing the existing body of completed and recorded work produced by researchers, scholars, and practitioners.” Arlene Fink, Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper (London, Sage, 2010) at 3. “A formal literature review is a very specific piece of argumentative writing. It is a work that relies on scientific and academic discourse and debate to construct arguments about a current research project.” Zina O’Leary, The Essential Guide to Doing Research (London, Sage, 2004) at 78.

11. The Literature Review 2 Purposes of the ‘literature review’: Inform your readers of developments in the field. Establish your own credibility. Argue the relevance and significance of your study. Providing a context for your own methodological approach. Arguing the relevance of your approach. Zina O’Leary, The Essential Guide to Doing Research (London, Sage, 2004) at 79.

12. The Literature Review 3 Select Research Questions Select Bibliographic Indices, Databases or Websites Choose Search Terms (Ask Experts) Apply Practical Screens Apply Methodological Screens Do the Review Synthesize the Results Produce Descriptive Review

13. Questions to Ask What is the specific thesis, problem, or research question that my review of literature helps to define? What type of literature review am I conducting? What is the scope of my literature review? How good was my information seeking? Have I critically analyzed the literature I use? Have I cited and discussed studies contrary to my perspective? Will the reader find my literature review relevant, appropriate, and useful? Hart, C. Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (London: Sage,1998)

15. Managing My Sources Bibliographic (Reference) Managers are here to help! Organize your research all in one place Easily create in-text citations Easily format bibliographies Avoid plagiarism and other unpleasant consequences of incorrect (or no) citations Bibliographic Management Software Refworks Endnote Zotero Mendeley

17. Evaluating My Sources Author or Organization Accuracy Currency Objectivity Coverage Purpose and Audience Web Sources Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change http://nipccreport.comhttp://nipccreport.com Institute for Historical Review http://www.ihr.orghttp://www.ihr.org

19. Citing My Sources Quoting, Paraphrasing or Summarizing? Where you publish and in what discipline will determine what citation style you use. Law: McGill, Harvard, New York, Oxford Non-Law: MLA, APA, Chicago, CP, AMA, etc.

20. Attribution Eyes of the Reader Authorship, Title, Source, Pinpoints Web/Blog/Podcast/Tweet/Vlog

21. Publishing Where do I publish? Factors: academic/professional, peer or editor-reviewed, field Catalogues WLU Law Journal Ranking What about Open Access? Dalhousie Libraries Open Access Subject Guide Sherpa/Romeo – Publisher Policies & Self-Archiving OpenDOAR Search for Repositories How do I survey the market? Global Books in Print Amazon/Chapters

23. Psychology of Research Carol Collier Kuhlthau, Professional website: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~kuhlthau/information_search_process.htm http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~kuhlthau/information_search_process.htm

24. Psychology of Research 2 Initiation – Brainstorming, Discussing Selecting – Discussing, General Sources Overview Exploration – Reading, Listing Descriptors Formulation – Survey, Listing/Combining Focus Collection – Comprehensive Searches/Assistance Presentation – Returning, Rechecking Writing Groups are an excellent way to focus and reaffirm your direction.

25. Bibliography Dalhousie Libraries, Guide to Writing Book Reviews, Online: http://libraries.dal.ca/writing_and_styleguides/style_guides /book_reviews.html http://libraries.dal.ca/writing_and_styleguides/style_guides /book_reviews.html Fink, Arlene. Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper (London, Sage, 2010). Hart, C. Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (London: Sage,1998) Kuhlthau, Carol Collier. Professional website. Online: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~kuhlthau/information_sear ch_process.htm http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~kuhlthau/information_sear ch_process.htm O’Leary, Zina. The Essential Guide to Doing Research (London, Sage, 2004) at 78.

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