Assignment 2: literature review

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Assignment 2 literature review

• Objective
• To explore more an area or a concept you are
  interested in
• Sample topics to start with
• Concepts
• Information grounds
• Information overload
• Stress/coping theory
• Sense-making theory
• Questions
• How do people make relevance judgment when
  searching the Web?
• How is information used for entertainment?
• Why do people sometime avoid information?
• How important is interpersonal communication in
  reference interviews?
• How to design interfaces that promotes effective
  browsing?
• How do children use the Web for their school
  work?

• Incidental information acquisition
• Relevance and pertinence
• Information poverty in urban American cities

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Assignment 2 literature review

• How to?
• Identify an area or concept
• Search indexes to the literature, references,
  the Web
• Read, highlight, annotate, take notes,
  outline/concept maps
• Summarize, compare, synthesize, evaluate,
  criticize
• Write, edit, modify
• Examples
• Rieh (2004)
• Wildemuth and Moore (1995)
• Leckie, G.J., Pettigrew, K.E., and Sylvain, C. 
  (1996). 
• Resource
• http//www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature
  _review.html
• Carol Kuhlthaus information search process

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What I will look for

• Description/definition of the research area or
  concept
• Identification of relevant and key literature
• 2 dozen articles cite 8-10 of them at least
• Summary of the identified literature
• Key themes, major findings, contributions and
  limitations
• Synthesis
• common threads holes differences, connections,
  etc
• Applications to practice
• 4-5 single-spaced or 8-10 double-spaced pages
• Due on November 12