Mixed methods

Thinking of doing mixed methods? I found an excellent website on this. It is actually a textbook, with concept map for each chapters. Alhamdulillah, excellent!!!

Educational research: quantitative, qualitative and mixed approaches
Authors: Burke Johnson, Larry Christensen

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Link 2

Mindmap software

At last after going thru mindmap softwares... I purchased the INSPIRATION software. Why?
1) Its cheap (the main reason, you can get student price)
2) The graphics are great
3) It provides other tools as well, and not just mindmap eg concept map, venn diagram.

Essay writing

I have not been writing in this blog lately....
I have been busy with assignments, and the next one is due in 2 days time.
But I found this great stuff on essay writing, and for visual learners like me.. it is just GREAT!!! Alhamdulillah.
CLICK HERE

Plain language statement

My assignment is due next week and I have to prepare an ethics application form, which would include a plain language statement. Click below for details:
The University of Melbourne website 

Matrix method

This book is just great.....
It makes sense, why things do not make sense....
If you are a visual person (how would you know? please refer to my learning style post), matrix method would be really helpful...
If you are a global person (again, please refer to learning style post)... matrix method would be the answer...
I don't feel like summarizing about it now, because I want to apply it straight away....
But wait... somebody has written a great summary... click here

Powerpoint presentation
Article on matrix method

Creating a table in blog

testing	testing	testing
* in case you are wondering what this is about...	i am learning to insert a table in my blog, so that I can show you how to do the lit review using the matrix method...	you can refer to this link

Its not too late

I am almost towards the end of my first year of phd.... how come I still cannot make sense of my literature review? I have a system that looks ok... (I got this from one of the research methods book). Somehow, something was missing. As I was browsing in Amazon.com, I found this book. I read one of the comments... and I decided to order it. Now this book is in my hands, I am half way through... and yes I think it was worth it. I found the missing bits.... thats probably why I couldn't make sense of my lit review...

Ok, I am going to continue reading this... will summarize later.