Ongoing engagement

Collaborative Literature Review Matrix

Create a discourse community whilst also sharpening close reading, research, summarising, paraphrasing, and citation skills.

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With Jasmina Najjar

Educator prep: None

Student prep: None

Synchronous or Asynchronous

Shared online space

Duration: Variable

Activity purpose

Create a discourse community whilst also sharpening close reading, research, summarizing, paraphrasing, and citation skills.

Useful for

Preparation ahead of a class discussion about a certain topic when several readings have been assigned. Preparation ahead of a class discussion about a specific topic when students need to conduct their own research to select articles/sources. Preparation ahead of students writing a literature review as part of a research proposal or research paper.

Sharpens close reading, research, summarizing, paraphrasing, and citation skills.

Encourages content mastery.

Preparation

Setting up a shared editable Google Doc or a Wiki within your LMS.

Adding a literature review matrix table (see below as an example).

	SOURCE 1	SOURCE 2	SOURCE 3	SOURCE 4
Main idea/argument 1	[enter quote or paraphrase]	[enter quote or paraphrase]	[enter quote or paraphrase]	[enter quote or paraphrase]
Main idea/argument 2
Main idea/argument 3
Main idea/argument 4

Instructions

Post preparation, make it clear how you’d like each student to contribute to the literature review matrix.

E.g. 1 entry in total or 1 entry per assigned article or multiple entries from an article they found about the topic through their individual research.