Help masters and doctoral students be more productive. By giving you tools the tools you need 24/7 so you can be completely comfortable throughout your academic process, In skill building and So you can maintain your motivation throughout the tasks required of you

1. Exploiting Rapid
Change in Technology
Enhanced Learning
… for Post Graduate Education
Using Technology to Organize Your Literature Review

2. Happiness does not come from doing easy
work but from the afterglow of satisfaction
that comes after the achievement of a
difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

3. Help masters and doctoral students be
more productive.
By giving you tools the tools you need 24/7
so you can be completely comfortable
throughout your
academic process,
In skill building and
So you can maintain your motivation
throughout
THEORETICAL BASE: SOCIALIZATION

4. AGENDA
1. Overview the Process
2.Organization: Find Your Themes
3. Data capture:
1.Bibliographic software
2. Spreadsheet
4. How to read efficiently
5. 1:1 correspondence with methodology
6. Rough spots – what to expect?
7. The personal traits that will stand you in good
stead

5. THE PROCESS
READ – ORGANIZE – READ – COMPARE – READ – ETC.

6. ORGANIZATION: FIND YOUR THEMES
EXPECT THEM TO CHANGE AS THEY MOVE DOWN THE FUNNEL
Reading anything even loosely
related to what interests you
General Themes
Specific Themes
Gaps To Be Filled By Your Study

7. TOOL #1
1. Folders, Themes, Groups
2. Places for notes, abstracts
3. To which you attached pdfs
4. Which can also be highlighted
5. Collaboration may be an issue as well
GOOD BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE

8. TOOL #2
Rows are the references
Columns are themes, including methodology they used in
their study
Rows are used for their ideas/your ideas churned up by their
ideas/ quotes you might like to use
Your process while reading is the rows
Your process while writing is contained in the columns
Gaps come to light when you read the columns
SPREADSHEET ANALYSIS OF THEMES / IDEAS

9. IMPROVING YOUR READING
Skill improvement/center column
Tie to methodology
Ability to sort out what you don’t want
as much as what you do
TWO WEBINARS

10. 1:1 CORRESPONDENCE
Logic of Design Tool
Articles search
TOPICS IN LITERATURE WITH METHDOLOGY

11. ROUGH SPOTS
1. Your voice not theirs
2. What you want to say, based on what they did before
you
3. Surfacing the whole story, not just the part you like
4. Surfacing what others did before you, upon which
you can build
5. Journey: Leading your reader through a complex
stream of ideas out to where your methodology
makes perfect sense.
IMPROVING YOUR WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

12. PERSONAL TRAITS
WHAT TESTS YOU NOW?
MEMORY
ORGANIZATION
CRITICAL ANALYSIS
SYNTHESIS
ARGUMENT

13. What’s Up at DoctoralNet?
1. Webinars through December – Phase 1, 2, and 3, covered each month
2. Fridays – quick technology examples per topic:
Oct 28th 5. Increase your academic writing skills
Nov 4th 6. develop your writing plan
Nov 11th 7. what goes where tools
Nov 18th 8. keep your motivation up
Nov 25th 9. design and implementation of your data collection
1. Special pricing for year’s membership month of Oct. 50% off full year of
technology. IN YOUR CURRENCY
2. Improve your academic writing:
Read / Listen / Comment starting next week.