SOTL Research: Literature Review: How to Connect Your Research to Existing Literature

SOTL Research Requires:

1) Discipline (rigorous research methods)
2) Peer-review
3) Publication
4) Generativity (building upon prior research and scholarship; i.e., LITERATURE REVIEW)

Here's a fill-in-the blanks exercise (aka a "syntactical borrowing" exercise) to help conceptualize our research. Filling in these blanks may help us to conceptualize how to build a more complete bibliography. In other words, thinking about what already exists in the literature and the niche we are filling can expand our REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE:

1) This study builds on and contributes to earlier studies on _______________.

2) Although earlier studies have examined _______________, they did not ______________.

3) As such, this study provides additional insight into ___________________.

4) The theoretical insights from ___________________ provides another contribution.

5) This study analyzes ____________________.

6) Although earlier studies in ______________ have identified ____________, little analytical attention has been paid to ________________.

7) I address this issue by studying _________.

Here's how Lisa Mills and I filled in the blanks on 3/6/9:

1) creativity
2) creativity in studio art, examine creativity in the complex art of filmmaking
3) writing for film production that involves multiple crafts and disciplines, each requiring guidance AND latitude for their creativity
4) Egri and Aristotle
5) student outcomes in screenwriting tasks (before and after) exposure to specific educational activities
6) creativity in writing, outcomes, the creative proces
7)

Note: To design our research and improve the quality of our bibliography, we'll need to think about:
1) the theories that we are testing (the "Why?"),
2) the methods we are using to test those theories (the "How?") and
3) the outcomes we are after (the "What?").

Sources for Further Research:

Music Research.

EBSCO host.

An article on Creativity and Film.

Activity Theory.

An article called One Sense is Never Enough.