27/10/2015 EW A3.7 Session 2. Study Skills seminar

Act. 1 Keywords and international terminology Davis and Florian’s article Discuss the article in small groups 10” (minutes)

In teams (3-4 people ) draw out the themes of the article and answer: What implications may be gleaned from the paper about how to search for literature? What knowledge do you have about how to search literature? 15”

Group discussion Share your team notes aloud to the rest of the group. 10”

Act. 2 Scopus Explore the following website: support/staff/research/services/citation-services/research- publication-metrics/sources/ support/staff/research/services/citation-services/research- publication-metrics/sources/ support/staff/research/support/keeping-up-to- date/_files2/Scopus-User-Guide.pdf support/staff/research/support/keeping-up-to- date/_files2/Scopus-User-Guide.pdf 20”

The screen shot activity 1. Choose a topic of your interest e.g. theme of an assignment. 2. Search on Scopus at least 10 references related to your topic and make a ‘screen shot’. 3. Refine your search and ‘screen shot’ 15” 4. Analyse your search and ‘screen shot’ 5. Choose 3 authors, view their details and ‘screen shot’ 6. Analyse the output of the previous authors and ‘screen shoot’ 7. Explore more Scopus details and send 6 more screen shots.

Act. 3 Literature Review What is literature review? What does literature review mean to your study topic? Individual/pairs/ group discussion 15”

Reading for next week: Christine Bruce article (Handbook, blackboard). Thank you