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Separating the what from the chafe: Effective Strategies for Culling the Literature Marci Ybarra, MSW, PhD IRP/Howard University Dissertation Workshop May 2019 Introductions Name, institution, area of degree, your dissertation interests

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Separating the what from the chafe: Effective Strategies for Culling the Literature

Marci Ybarra, MSW, PhD IRP/Howard University Dissertation Workshop May 2019

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Introductions

  • Name, institution, area of degree, your dissertation interests
  • Methods, data you envision using
  • Areas of literature you are invested in for your scholarship
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Some orientating starting points

Most of us

  • Never feel like we’ve read all that we should
  • Go down rabbit holes
  • Difficulty sorting out what’s relevant (and not) to our own scholarship
  • Do not know when to take a break from reading
  • Should, but often do not, develop strategies to curtail the above
  • By the way, none of this stops post PhD or even post tenure
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What are some challenges you are having in this area?

What would you like to get out of

  • ur discussion?
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My approach today

  • Reduce stress on this (if there is any)
  • Provide practical tools for
  • How and where to begin?
  • Starting to cull articles and books for a literature review
  • Organizing all articles and books you’ve read
  • Not going down the rabbit hole (too much)
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My Approach at your Stage: Welfare Reform

  • I began with the ‘classics’
  • I marked all citations that spoke to my interests which were a lot
  • I read all of them
  • I got stuck
  • I moved on to ‘searches’ on ‘welfare reform’
  • Wash, rinse, repeat
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THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO DO THIS

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What I (try) to do now

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Think about: who am I trying to have a conversation with?

  • Classics in your area
  • Backward citation mapping
  • Developing an excel tracker
  • Thinking across is this valuable for:
  • My area of scholarly interest?
  • Methods?
  • Tangential to what I am studying?
  • Data?
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Google Scholar is your friend. YOUR BEST FRIEND

Example Search and backward citation mapping

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What do you do with all of this? My approach

  • Example 1: Literature Review tracking
  • Example 2: Data source tracking
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Rabbit Holes

  • Examples of what you run into here?
  • Tips on what you do?
  • Here’s what I do
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Writer’s Block or Procrastination

  • Ugly can be revised, blank pages cannot
  • In-person writing group
  • On-line writing group
  • Timer trick
  • Bootcamp
  • Take a break