PhD Wiki: The Use of Mapping in Literature Review. Submitted to my supervisors February 2009Ammendments in red 1. Introduction 1.1 The Literature Review Literature review is a systematic method for identifying, evaluating and interpreting the work of researchers, scholars and practitioners in a chosen field (Fink, 1998). More specifically, Hart (1998; 13) describes how conducting a literature review requires: "The selection of available documents (both published and unpublished) on the topic, which contain information, ideas, data and evidence written from a particular standpoint to fulfil certain aims or express certain views on the nature of the topic and how it is to be investigated, and the effective evaluation of these documents in relation to the research being proposed" Boote and Beile (2005) suggest “a thorough, sophisticated review of literature is even more important in education research, with its messy, complex problems, than in most other fields and disciplines.” 1.2 Mapping 2. 2.1 Approaches to Mapping 2.2 Types of Mapping 4.
Bryman: Socia. Recommended Reading. Tips and Tricks for Coding with NVivo. Having worked with NVivo on a number of our own projects, as well as those of clients, we’ve discovered a few tips and tricks along the way that we thought might be useful to share. The tips are by no means the “right” way to code (there is no such thing!) , but we’ve certainly found that we’ve saved ourselves some time, not to mention headaches, by following the suggestions below. Note that the following comments assume that you’re familiar with the concept of nodes in NVivo – if you need clarification of this please visit our ‘What is a node?’ FAQ. Less is More This generally useful principle can be applied to NVivo in two ways – firstly, try to avoid having too many nodes. The combination of the ease of use of NVivo and a tendency to want to code at quite specific categories, can actually result in an unmanageable number of nodes to work with.
Another application of the “less is more” principle is in regards to the amount of text to select when coding. Some NVivo Coding Quirks. Paper Rater: Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and More. The qualitative dissertation: a ...