Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Literature matrix

I did not see this coming, but we learn as we go right?  I am also getting a lot of questions about how to work with a literature matrix, so I made you a video to help out.  A couple of other things I noticed since making the video are: 

  1. Make your settings so that anyone with the link can view your matrix, otherwise, the coaches will not have access to grade it. 
  2. If you are anything like me, it will be easier to discern patterns in the literature if you make a single document with 30 rows (aka 30 articles) instead of one document with 30 tabs (one per article). 
  3. You may change your research question at any time if you find that your question is not suitable to meet the assignment requirements. However, the longer you wait you will find yourself more in a time crunch because of how fast-paced the term is. 



The following video includes instructions on how-to: 

1) Access a specific database (SportDISCUS)

2) Enter multiple search terms (i.e. "Organizational Justice" AND "Sport*" OR "athle*")

3) Set search parameters to only include peer-reviewed articles

4) Save PDFs of the articles

5) Create and share a literature matrix on google sheets 

37 comments:

  1. Thank you Dr. Benavides! This is a very thorough break down! It really helps as we continue to build our systemic review.

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  2. Thank you! This cleared up a lot of confusion!

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  3. Thank you for your examples! 30 resources for an 8-10 page literature review seems daunting.

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    1. I agree that the 30 sources for this assignment is daunting! I am considering changing my question as it has been challenging to find 20 sources, never mind 30, for my original question!

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  4. Thanks Dr. Benavides! That helped with my breakdown.

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  5. I struggled so much with figuring out how to align and wrap the gridlines, and I wasn't able to figure it out. This helped me so much to understand how to properly format and organize the rest of my matrix, thank you!

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  6. Thanks Dr. Benavides. This will be very helpful as I move forward with my matrix. The matrix has already helped me organize how I will use my resources better.

    Latario Boone
    Current Readings-Section 3
    ASU Sports Administration Student

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  7. Thank you so much for this information. I struggled with the matrix because of the format. The matrix did help me realize that I needed to change my research question around.

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  8. Thank you so much for posting this video! I was very confused with the matrix and this answered a lot of my questions.

    -Morgan Bulliard

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  9. Im going to be honest I youtubed it to figure it out and its difficult to go backwards to tweak the assignment while doing midterms a quiz writing a annotation, the research paper itself and the other assignments in our other classes is there a way we can simplify this and maybe describe the details via video or vlog on each assignment ?
    - Erich Seals

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  10. Thank you so much for the clarification! It was quite difficult for me at first but I think I now how a better understanding and can actually see how this will benefit us in writing our paper in the long run!

    -Briana Heath

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  11. Thankyou Dr. Benavides for your help with this. I will definitely be referring back to this as I work on Part 2 and 3 of the matrix.

    -Lauren Muszynski

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  12. I found it most helpful to make a tab for each component of my research topic. That way when it comes time to write my review I have a categorized tab with all the relevant articles inside the tab. I don't know if others will find it as useful as I do but it helps me a lot.

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  13. Thanks for posting this video! I did have some problems with my first submission of my matrix- you said that you were unable to view my assignment (and I received a 0/10). I cannot figure out why my assignment isn't able to be viewed by you. Is it okay if I submit an Excel sheet (as opposed to a GoogleSheet) with my findings?
    And when you see my 20 summaries, is that able to be counted towards my first assignment?
    Thanks!!
    Matthew Phillippy (Current Readings Seminar)

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  14. Thank you for posting this video it helps out tremendously!

    Aaron Farmer (Current Readings)

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  15. Thank you, this was very helful

    Brandon Lovorn (Current Readings Seminar)

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  16. Also when I tried to publish my comment earlier with my A-State email is said I was not cleared for blogger so I had to use my professional e-mail, has anyone else had this issue?

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  17. This is way better than Google Scholar, however some topics that would have fit my research requires perfectly are on site checkouts only or site to site transfers which could take weeks to receive during this time of the year. - Erich Seals (62713)

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  18. This video helped me so much with my matrix. especially you showing us how to format on google sheets since I have not used it as much. I also never seen some helpful things along with citing APA form the Astate library. I appreciate the time you took to do these videos for your students.
    -Elisabeth Flowers

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  19. Thank you for the clarification. I actually turned my googledoc sheet into a google excel sheet and that has really helped me. Also, modeling my paper after the Roberts et al. article helps a TON! I wasn't sure how to go about this paper at first, but now I have a much better understanding!

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  20. I had to change my question as well because i could not find enough sources covering the question I had decided on.

    Brandon Lovorn, Current Readings Seminar

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  21. Thank you so much this helps, I’ve been stressed out about this but this actually claimed me down!

    Alphonso Blackwell, current readings

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  22. I like the idea behind the matrix, but I feel that is excessive to do this for all 30 resources on top of incorporating them into our literature review. The matrix I believe would be more fit for the individual annotation assignments to help us interact with those articles on a deeper level. I find that I am more engaged with my articles when I am utilizing them for a paper as opposed to being assigned a reading. Just my personal thoughts. Thank you.

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  23. Thank you for the explanation. I remember being confused at first when working on the first 10 articles, but everything went a lot smoother after watching the video.

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  24. Thank you for the explanation. I remember being confused at first when working on the first 10 articles, but everything went a lot smoother after watching the video.
    -Ernesto Escamilla

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  25. Thank you for taking the time to post a video and further explain the matrix. I felt like my searches improved and became more relevant as I continued to build my matrix after this video. It really is impressive that you do this for your students! Having an easy to access resource like this is great. Thanks again!

    Greg Rahn
    Current Readings Seminar - Section 5 Student

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  26. Well I wish I would've watched this a long time ago. Self teaching and google aren't the best but I'm here now and I'll make the best of my late start.

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  27. Thank you for all you help. Using these videos have been a big help for this class.

    Samuel Collier - Current Readings

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  28. Thank you for all your help this semester! I am just starting out in the program and trying to get back in the swing of things academically after taking about five years off after undergrad and my first graduate program. The resources you provided really helped me and I appreciated the challenge of the systematic literature review in this class!

    Ben Veshi--Current Readings Section 8

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  29. This was very helpful, your explanation of the class and helpfulness was greatly appreciated! Thank you for a great introduction to the graduate program. I loved how you took the time to explain questions students might have especially with these videos!

    Sincerely,
    Logan Smet Current Readings Section 1

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  30. Thank you for taking time to upload videos for us, your explanation was helpful in moving forward. I was initially confused on what we needed but with your information was able to successfully move forward. This was my last class in the program and I am thankful for all you provided for me during these last two years.

    Kristen Salyer

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  31. Wish I would have seen this earlier and been able to actually get a writing center appt. within the first two weeks.

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  32. Thank you for this information! For the longest I've been trying to figure out how to press "enter" in a spreadsheet, and I've finally learned!! While this was a very challenging assignment, I appreciate doing it and learning about the process.
    Sadé Gant, ESPE6643

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  33. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to make this very thorough video explaining the matrix and how to properly build one. After watching this video my matrix and the quality of my sources and the information I gathered from them dramatically improved. I enjoyed your class and the topics that we read about each week were very interesting and informative.

    Grayson Gladden, ESPE6643

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