Workshop 3: Literature review and forms of mediation

Due: Complete reading list, completed annotated bibliography (25 annotations). Mapping. To be uploaded in the BOX-folder before the meeting.

In-class discussions focus on the literature review as a genre that makes an argument, transforming one’s annotated bib into a lit review for the proposal, academic genres as texts/artifacts that change depending on their social contexts, specifically in relation to the status of your RQs as evidenced in your reading lists, maps, and annotated bibliographies. Using as a vehicle the reading of two example PhD theses, one by compilation, one monograph, this workshop investigates the relationship between modes of research and the form of research output, which choice will be significant in the research design evolved for your thesis.