visual understanding environment for literature reviews

This lens and the ones on writing abstracts and developing a hypothesis are fantastic. Love your lenses, I'm doing my bachelor's at the moment and plan to go on and do a masters. Good luck with your bachelor's and whatever else you go on to. RoadMonkey (author) on November 27, That's great.

RoadMonkey (author) on December 26, Thank you for visiting. Very interesting concept for literature reviews. RoadMonkey (author) on January 24, Thank you for visiting. Mary Norton from Ontario, Canada on October 22, 2013: It really helps to get thoughts organised before getting into the detail of expanding the concepts. RoadMonkey (author) on October 22, Yes, it's great isn't it? I use it a lot. I think though that this could benefit most people. I like this method, but I personally wouldn't use it because I do everything in my head (never took notes in school, I do math in my head, etc). RoadMonkey (author) on October 22, That's great that you can hold everything in your head. So glad you brought it here for others to read and learn. I used to teach this to my classes (a toned down version) for their writing assignments. This shows the linkages and helps you work out whether anything is missing. You can also do reverse mind maps, where you create a mind map FROM your written material. I did a great many mind maps and concept maps and often switched between mind maps, concept maps and outlines depending on which seemed clearer and what was needed at the time. Yes, mind mapping does help things seem clearer. Hi? Road monkey?could you more on how i can use concept map to write research questionnaire. © 2012 RoadMonkey Concept Maps and Literature Reviews

This checks for linkages and logical ordering of the piece. Then use that to refine the piece of writing. This is where you take a piece of writing and construct a concept map from that. I did several iterations and also did a reverse concept map. Question: Which visual map might help us in planning the structure of a literature review?Īnswer: I used a concept map to plan the structure of my literature review.

Visual understanding environment for literature reviews