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Literature analysis& beyond
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Why to do literature analysis?
a. Basis of any research project:
- what has been said, who said it, when and how relevant it is- what hasn't been said: “originality” of research
b. Contextualise your research project in updated theoretical framework
Literature Review is more than an annotated bibliography or a summary: sources are organised and presented in terms of their overall relationship to your own project.
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1. Familiarise with main databases of academic articles
1.Present one possibility of building a basic, personalised reference “database”
1. Introduce some elements of literature analysis
Focus on literature: aims of this seminar
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1. Where to search?
A must-know:
http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/index.html
Some databases:
http://www.jstor.org/
http://muse.jhu.edu/
http://www.tandfonline.com/
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SIGN IN with University of Warwick Username & Password
- Shibboleth (Taylor and Francis, - UK Federation (MUSE)
Don't forget to log in!
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2. Literature search Exercise n. 1 (10 minutes)
- Search journals for academic articles about “elections and democracy” (since 1995)
- In a .doc file:
1. insert citation (author, year, title of article, journal, volume, number, pages) – optional: insert link to article
2. copy abstract of the article
3. copy list of references (other articles/books cited in the article) (the list can be expanded with references to related articles you find during your research)
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2. Literature search Feedback
1. Any difficulties? Problems?
2. What's the usefulness?
3. Other
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3. Literature analysis
Exercise n. 2 (20 minutes)
- Choose one of the articles you found in the previous exercise:
1. About the author: Who is (s)he? What's his/her main interest? Can you figure out his/her
approach? Have you read (can you find) other articles by him/her?
2. About the article:- what is the methodology used?- which types of data/information/references (reliable, verifiable)?- what are the main points?- in your opinion, is there any point particularly debatable/controversial?
3. Which questions does it raise and/or leave opened?
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3. Literature analysis
Feedback
1. Any difficulties? Problems?
2. What's the usefulness?
3. Important issues of literature analysis “left out”?
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3. Literature analysis
What about doing it online?
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/csd/iatl/observatory/
1. Possible to organise your databases through links (easy-to-use)
2. Possible to create a cumulative, comprehensive database
3. Multimedia database
4. Give visibility to what you are doing