So I have been moving along on my research. I am still a bit unclear on how I am to pull the field conversation together. From what I understood field conversation is finding texts on my topic. I am also to observe what type of work has been done on my topic. And therefore I guess put them in relation to one another. Correct me if I am wrong! :)
I was having difficulty on finding articles on classroom management in Mendeley. It was pulling up very many articles on education in general. I therefore logged on to UC’s library and did a journal search on Classroom management. I was lucky to find a very interesting article so I saved it on my desktop. Next I opened Mendeley and imported the article. As soon as I did that I saw a tab that said “related research” and BAM ! I found various journals on my topic.
Now, I see that on some journals there are details missing. I don’t know how to find those details and I also don’t know how to cite the journal from Mendeley.
I am still a bit uneasy about writing in Google Docs. This will be my goal this week. So far I am writing in word.
Getting back to my articles… signing off
So some of the journal articles on Mendeley will have incomplete bibliographic data. My suggestion would be to search on Google for the exact title of the article. Once you locate the article in another database you should be able to fill in the missing data/find the article through the UC Library website.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήIn regards to the field conversation think of it this way: you start out reading broadly on your topic and as you become more familiar with the range of people/publications within this topic, you should be able to identify trends, positions, and sub-topics.