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Title: Week 6 (Feb. 27, 07)


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Week 6 (Feb. 27, 07)
  • Literature Review (I)

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Agenda for Today
  • Hot Topics debate (30 mins)
  • Conference in groups on draft1 Learn from peers
    and support peers (40 mins).
  • Process readings for literature review (20 mins)
    Literature Review Draft 2
  • ------------------------------
  • Learn from peers of previous classes (15 mins)
  • APA style (10 mins) course website (5).
  • For next week sign up meeting time with
    instructor (10).

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Sharing life
  • A not-so-good moment
  • Weirdness of life - an idea, a feeling, an
    incident that you feel is hard to understand
    about your school, kids, classroom, life in
    general
  • Your teaching, classroom? Anything that we can
    discuss and give suggestions?
  • Anything else

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Agenda I
  • Hot Topic Debate
  • Hot Topic 3 Do High-Stakes Assessments Improve
    Learning?
  • Discussion LeadersJulie BennettRachel
    StortiPaula HarnsKathy McGowan

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Agenda II
  • Draft 1 Group Conference

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Learn from peers and support peers
  • Form a group of 3/4 people.
  • Read two/three of your peers drafts carefully.
    Provide written comment including, but do not
    necessarily limit your comments to, the following
    points
  • Give comment to each of your group members
    writing. In the comment, please include the
    following
  • What have you learned from reading your peers
    project (List one or two strong points aspects
    that impressed you the most things that you
    didnt expect/know before).
  • Weak points of the project?
  • Suggestions to improve provide at least one
    suggestion and try to give as many as you can
    to help improve the project.

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Agenda III
  • Process the readings for literature review

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The Rule of Thumb of a lit rev
  • Develop a coherent essay
  • Rather than
  • Producing a series of connected summaries (or
    annotations)!

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What is a Literature Review?
  • to know what others have discovered before they
    begin investigations of their own (Cuba, 1988
    25).

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Steps for literature review
  • Selecting a topic
  • Reading and evaluating the relevant research
    articles
  • Synthesizing and organizing your notes to
    identify
  • patterns,
  • relationships among studies,
  • gaps in the body of the literature, and
  • Strengths and weaknesses in particular studies.
  • Reorganize your notes and develop a detailed
    writing outline
  • Writing, revising, and redrafting your paper
  • Editing for correctness and adherence to the
    required style manual (APA style).

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Some guidelines
  • How many articles to read?
  • How many to cite at least 12
  • Be highly selective in identifying and citing
    references usually, only select those that are
    most important/relevant and most current
  • If there is too much research on your topic,
    perhaps you need to narrow down your topic, or
    identify delimiters such as review only recent
    articles
  • If there isnt enough research on the topic,
    perhaps you need to broaden your topic or
    investigate additional sources your literature
    search didnt identify.

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Structure of a literature review
  • Introductory section
  • Which will include an overview of what will be
    covered in the rest of the document
  • Body use subheadings
  • Conclusion/closure of some kind

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Agenda IV
  • Learn from peers of previous classes

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Group work
  • Focus on Introduction Section and Literature
    Review Section
  • What are the strong points and what are the weak
    points?
  • Look through the structure of the whole proposal

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Agenda IV
  • APA Style
  • http//web.cortland.edu/shis/651/classnotes.htm

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For Next Week
  • Sign up individual meeting time with instructor.
  • You can choose to meet with me individually or in
    pairs/groups (that might have similar research
    interest/questions/concerns)

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Writing Lit Rev
  • The Literature Review A few tips on conducting
    it http//www.utoronto.ca/writing/litrev.html
  • A literature Review for an investigative report
    http//ecdev.hku.hk/acadgrammar/litrev/section1/on
    e2.htm
  • Why are lit rev often called critical
    reviewshttp//ecdev.hku.hk/acadgrammar/litrev/s
    ection2/two3.htm
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