L3 Tutor Group: 31st January 2022

• Less is more – always!
  • Analysis
  • The more topics you talk about – the less you’ll talk about
• BE BRUTAL!
  • If in anyway extraneous – cut out!

• Literature Review
  • The lit review should give a clear idea of literature to bring out thoughts to contextualise
    • Are they the backbone of the theoretical framework?
      • Which ones can the dissertation NOT do without?
    • Extrapolate
    • Depth of material is important
  • University of Toronto lit review site:
    • The Book Review or Article Critique
    • The Literature Review: A Few Tips on Conducting It

• We need to funnel down our interests 
  • We need to read very widely
• Tease out ideas through reading and noting points that interest

The Hunter’s Evidence: Carlo Ginzburg (Podcast)

• MICROHISTORIES:
  • Not about what you put under your microscope, but your analysis
  • Clues on how to create funnel effect and drill down on subject
  • Grand narratives through small case studies
    • It is the detail that makes sense
      • A footnote becoming a book
  • Methodological approach
• Hunter analogy
  • As researchers we have to be hunters
    • Our aim is to tell a compelling story