Start Date

3-16-2020 10:00 AM

End Date

3-16-2020 11:30 AM

Author(s) Bio

Juliet Rumble (MSLS, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; PhD, Vanderbilt University) is the philosophy, religion, and women’s studies librarian at Auburn University Libraries in Auburn, Alabama. She is a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and has served on various committees in the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section (IS). She has contributed articles to Technical Services Quarterly, Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserves, and Scandinavian Studies. Her research interests are in the areas of information literacy instruction, library spaces and user experience.

Keywords

Graduate students; Literature reviews; Workshop; Research strategies; Research paper writing

Description of Proposal

This workshop is for instructors who work with graduate students who are starting work on a literature review for their thesis or dissertation. The graduate workshop begins with an overview of the role of the literature review in a dissertation or thesis and then transitions to a discussion of the ways that writers use different types of sources to accomplish different tasks in their writing. The main focus of the session is on general strategies and resources for finding scholarly literature using an academic library. Tracking citations, locating systematic reviews, using discipline-specific databases and research tools, and identifying relevant subject headings and taxonomies will addressed.

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Attendees will learn about a lesson plan for a workshop devoted to finding sources for a literature review.

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Mar 16th, 10:00 AM Mar 16th, 11:30 AM

Finding Sources for the Literature Review

This workshop is for instructors who work with graduate students who are starting work on a literature review for their thesis or dissertation. The graduate workshop begins with an overview of the role of the literature review in a dissertation or thesis and then transitions to a discussion of the ways that writers use different types of sources to accomplish different tasks in their writing. The main focus of the session is on general strategies and resources for finding scholarly literature using an academic library. Tracking citations, locating systematic reviews, using discipline-specific databases and research tools, and identifying relevant subject headings and taxonomies will addressed.