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Using Concept Maps To Organize Reviews of Literature: For CAUSE Research Clusters Hollylynne Lee April 6, 2010

This document discusses using concept maps to organize literature reviews. It defines concept maps, topic maps, and mind maps, and explains that concept maps in this context will extract salient findings from literature and show how they are related, rather than statistical concepts. It provides examples of concept maps color-coded by study type (qualitative, quantitative, theoretical). Finally, it recommends free and cheap concept mapping tools that can be used, including Cmap, Xmind, Vue, and Inspiration, as well as collaborative mapping options using Google Docs, Mind42 and Webspiration.

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Using Concept Maps To Organize Reviews of Literature: For CAUSE Research Clusters Hollylynne Lee April 6, 2010

This document discusses using concept maps to organize literature reviews. It defines concept maps, topic maps, and mind maps, and explains that concept maps in this context will extract salient findings from literature and show how they are related, rather than statistical concepts. It provides examples of concept maps color-coded by study type (qualitative, quantitative, theoretical). Finally, it recommends free and cheap concept mapping tools that can be used, including Cmap, Xmind, Vue, and Inspiration, as well as collaborative mapping options using Google Docs, Mind42 and Webspiration.

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Using Concept Maps to

Organize Reviews of
Literature
For CAUSE Research Clusters
Hollylynne Lee
April 6, 2010

Goals of a Literature Review


Getting familiar with research and best
practices in area of interest
Extracting salient findings that seem
interesting/important to the area of interest.
Synthesizing salient findings
Constructing a written document that
presents the synthesis to provide:
relevant background for those interested
an argument for a proposed research study
(gaps in research, research methods,
populations of interest)

What is a concept map?


A diagram to represent relationships
among concepts or topics.
Concept map structure of how different
ideas are related through linking phrases.
Topic map structure of how different
topics are related and indicates
how/where/when those topics occur
Mind map- radial hierarchical or tree
branch organization to help understand
one central idea.

Concept Map showing linking


phrases

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_mapping

Topic map showing


associations and occurrences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_map

Mind map showing branches


from central idea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MindMapGuidlines.JPG

Creating a Map of Literature


NOT creating a mapping of the
relationship among certain statistical
concepts.
INSTEAD..
Extracting salient findings or big ideas
from individual articles
Thinking about how those big ideas or
findings are related
Documenting how certain articles
contribute to the big ideas

Green- main topics


Pink- Empirically based studies (qualitative, teaching experiments,
interviews, etc)
Blue- Quantitative studies
Yellow- Theoretical studies/Literature reviews

Numbers represent a label for individual articles

Easy-to-Use Mapping Tools


Free
Cmap http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html
Xmind http://www.xmind.net/
Vue http://vue.tufts.edu/index.cfm

Cheap
Inspirationused in K-12 education. Free 30 day
trial http://www.inspiration.com/Freetrial

Collaborative Mapping
Draw tools in Google Docsallow for multiple
simultaneous editors
Browser-based Mind42 http://www.mind42.com
Webspiration Beta
http://www.mywebspiration.com

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