Summary of Literature Reviews: Moving from description to analysis, synthesis & evaluation

Main Ideas and Concepts:

• Bloom's Taxonomy:
  • A framework for categorizing thinking skills into levels of complexity:
  • Lower-order skills: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application
  • Higher-order skills: Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation
  • Each level builds on the previous one, meaning Comprehension cannot occur without foundational Knowledge.
• Lower-Order Thinking Skills:
  • Knowledge: Providing factual and conceptual information necessary for understanding. This includes definitions, terminology, and procedural Knowledge.
  • Comprehension: Translating and interpreting Knowledge, ensuring that the reader understands the relevance and significance of the information presented.
  • Application: Demonstrating how Knowledge is used in different contexts, providing examples to illustrate its Application.
• Higher-Order Thinking Skills:
  • Analysis: Breaking down concepts or data into parts, examining relationships, and comparing characteristics across different sources.
  • Synthesis: Combining findings from Analysis to develop new insights or conclusions, emphasizing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
  • Evaluation: Making judgments about the literature, assessing the process, and identifying limitations or areas for improvement.
• Writing Methodology:
  • Systematically provide Knowledge, followed by Comprehension, Application, Analysis, synthesis, and evaluation in the literature review.
  • Use clear descriptions to present Knowledge, interpret and explain significance, provide examples, analyze relationships, synthesize insights, and critically evaluate findings.

Detailed Bullet Point Format of Methodology:

• Knowledge:
  • Present factual and conceptual information (definitions, summaries, diagrams).
• Comprehension:
  • Mediate Knowledge for the reader, explaining relevance and significance.
  • Use summaries, descriptions, and paraphrasing to clarify.
• Application:
  • Show how Knowledge has been used in various contexts.
  • Provide examples and explain their relevance to the study.
• Analysis:
  • Break down concepts into parts and examine their relationships.
  • Compare and contrast characteristics across different sources.
• Synthesis:
  • Integrate findings from Analysis to develop new insights.
  • Establish connections and meta conclusions based on the Analysis.
• Evaluation:
  • Assess the overall argument and identify limitations.
  • Use evaluation criteria or theoretical lenses to critique findings.

Conclusion:

The speaker emphasizes that understanding and applying Bloom's Taxonomy can help writers produce systematic, organized, and comprehensible literature reviews. The video encourages viewers to engage with these complex thinking skills to enhance their writing and Analysis.

Speakers or Sources Featured:

• The speaker of the video (not explicitly named in the subtitles).

Notable Quotes

— 07:16 — « Synthesis is always the whole is always bigger than the sum of the parts and that's because you have a deeper understanding because of this analysis procedure that you've been through. »

— 12:55 — « Create is now seen as the highest critical thinking skill of all and that makes sense because it's so difficult to actually create something that's new and original. »

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