SES1242 literature reviews January 2018

Literature searching and reviewsSES1242 08/01/2018

© Middlesex University

Overview

• What is a literature review?

• Searching for literature for your Literature Review (assignment 3)

• Strategies for reading the literature, organising and writing your literature review

• Further help

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Questions from you and questions from me

• Phones out!

• Go to slido.com and enter the code: #Q405

• Submit any questions or things you’re not sure of as we go along

• Vote up questions you would like answered

• There will also be a couple of polls/quizzes to answer…



What Is A Literature Review?

What is a literature review?

What are you expected to include in your literature review?


Literature Review:

An effective summary, synthesis and review of selected documents on a research topic. It includes elements of

evaluation.

Slido code: Q405


Assignment 3 – Literature Review


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So, you need to…


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Why do people do literature reviews?

• Question time! Please answer the first poll on slido.com

— Event code: Q405



Test your skills…



Your boat is sinking!



There is a desert island nearby…



….you can swim there, but you can only take a small bag with you…



Choose four items to help you survive on the island



Select 4 from the following items:



Adventure island: survivor kit

Assess the usefulness of each item and provide the reason why you chose it

Item 1

Reason:

Item 2

Reason

Item 3

Reason

Item 4

Reason

3 minutes



What were the stages in the process of making your survival kit?

1. Think about situation

2. Analyse the available range of items

3. Choose essential items

4. Assess the information and plan

5. Explain your reasoning



Stages of writing a literature review

How can you compare your island adventure to writing a literature review?

1. Think about situation (topic)

2. Analyse the available range of items (search for literature)

3. Choose essential items (choose the most relevant articles)

4. Assess the information and plan (assess the articles and plan how you’re going to include them)

5. Explain your reasoning (summarise and evaluate)



Process of writing a literature review


1. Think about the topic

2. Select your sources and start reading

3. Narrow down the topic and source list

4. Assess your information

and plan

5. Outline your plan

6. Write

7. Revise


Searching for articles

• Think about your keywords

• Where to search?

— Summon, Google Scholar

— Other databases on MyUniHub – PubMed, Web of Science, Sport

Discus

• Access: ALWAYS login to MyUniHub > My Study > My Library, even for Google Scholar

• Refine your search

— Journal articles, peer reviewed, publication date, subject…

• Is it relevant to your topic? Is it a research article?

— Read the abstract – often more helpful than the title



Keywords

• What are the main concepts in the topic?

• Are there other words/phrases for the same ideas?

• Not all authors will use the same terminology!

• Read the articles/abstracts you’ve found for inspiration and search again



Fundamental movement

skills

• Movement skills

• Skill acquisition

• Skill development

• Skill proficiency

• Motor skills / ability

Who?

• Children?

• Young people?

• Schoolchildren?

• Teenagers?

• Girls/boys?

Physical activity

• Exercise

• Sport participation

• Active lifestyle

Fundamental

movement skills

and physical

activity levels

Specific

skills…


Finding resourcesmyUniHub > My Study > My Library

Go to My Study…then

My Library

Select Summon or

Databases

Login to

MyUniHub


Refine your search results

Full text online

Scholarly &

peer review

Journal

Articles only

Date range

Discipline,

e.g. recreation &

sports


Google Scholar

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Papers that

have

referenced

this one

The same paper on

other websites –

sometimes good for

getting full text

Full text from

Middlesex and

other sources

• Make sure you have logged into MyUniHub, click on Summon first –

leave this open in another tab

• At home / on your own device, set up Google Scholar to link to journals

we buy for you:

- Click the menu icon (top left)

- Click Settings

- Library links

- Search for Middlesex University and save.


If you have too many results...

• Add more keywords (narrow it down)

• Be more specific (sprinting vs. running)

• Use “” to find exact phrases (“home advantage”)

• Add limits, e.g. date


If you do not have enough results...

• Use alternative keywords (football or soccer)

• Be less specific

• Split the question into simple concepts/words

• Try variations of the same word, e.g. swim, swimmers, swimming


Does it make it into your review?

• Answer poll no 2:

What criteria could you use to decide whether to include an article in your literature review?



Reading

• Read the abstract

— What is the purpose of the article? What are the main findings and

conclusions? Is it relevant to the topic?

• Quickly look through the article - read any headings and subheadings. Look at any diagrams, tables and graphs

• Skim through the relevant sections of the text quickly for general understanding

— What are the main points? What questions does it raise and/or

answer? How useful is it to me?

• Read again carefully

— Is there sufficient evidence given? Is the evidence given convincing?

Why / not? Are the conclusions supported by the rest of the article?

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Note taking

• Note taking is important. How do you take notes?

• Good notes involve you and the text communicating – just highlighting words or sentences is not good note taking.

• How do you store your research?


A. Bottom of

my bagB. Excel

C. Spider Diagram


Assess your information and plan

• Now you can start to divide the reading you have done. What are the major themes that you have found?

• Select the appropriate sources of information – from what you have read, what can you use directly? Indirectly?

• Extract directly relevant information – a Literature Review isn’t the time to show off how much you have read. Keep it relevant!

• Try and summarise the information in your own words – you will need to have clarity in your writing



2. Select your sources and start

reading

3. Narrow down the topic and

source list

4. Assess your

information and plan

5. Assess and outline your

plan

6. Write

7. Revise


Outline your plan



2. Select your sources and start

reading

3. Narrow down the topic and

source list

4. Assess your information and

plan

5. Outline your plan

6. Write

7. Revise

• Sort and prioritise the literature you have already

• See which authors/ideas compliment each other

• See which authors/ideas disagree with each other

• Take the most interesting theme and start to outline your literature review

• Do I have enough to start writing? What more could I include?


What to include in your literature review?

Introduction

• What is the topic? Why is it interesting/important?

Discussion

• Review the main topics of the selected articles. How are they

similar/different? Did they reach similar conclusions? Why (not)?

Conclusions

Write an informative summary of the articles

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SES1242 literature reviews January 2018