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Literature Map - A Tool For Mapping Your Literature Review, Based On A Specific Research Question

This document provides instructions for creating a literature map to organize research on the relationship between independent and dependent variables. It explains that the map should include: (1) a three-step research question; (2) definitions of the dependent and independent variables; (3) a list of independent variables identified in other research; (4) the dependent variable at the top with independent variables below; and (5) sources grouped under each independent variable. The example focuses on how naming laws in Germany relate to ethnic mobilization and integration barriers among Turkish immigrants.

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Literature Map - A Tool For Mapping Your Literature Review, Based On A Specific Research Question

This document provides instructions for creating a literature map to organize research on the relationship between independent and dependent variables. It explains that the map should include: (1) a three-step research question; (2) definitions of the dependent and independent variables; (3) a list of independent variables identified in other research; (4) the dependent variable at the top with independent variables below; and (5) sources grouped under each independent variable. The example focuses on how naming laws in Germany relate to ethnic mobilization and integration barriers among Turkish immigrants.

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Contributed by B. Ramirez, International and Area Studies, b-ramirez@northwestern.

edu
Posted: 2009

Literature Map for Naming Laws and Turkish Mobilization in German: Administrative
Barriers to Integration

Literature Map --
A tool for mapping your literature review, based on a specific research question.

Steps in the process of creating your map:

1. Formulate your research into the “three-step” question: “I am studying


__________ because I want to find out what/why/how _____________ in order to
help my reader understand _________________.
2. Use the “three-step” question to define your dependent and independent variables.
In other words, you are positing that this set of independent variables has an effect
on your dependent variable – that there is a relationship between these variables.
The relationship between your dependent and independent variables is your
research question.
a. Three-step question: I am studying naming laws in Germany because I
want to find out how state administrative laws that seek to render citizens
eligible contribute to ethnic mobilization among Turkish immigrants in
order to help my reader understand continuing barriers to integration in
Germany.
b. Defining the variables:
i. Dependent variable: ethnic mobilization as a barrier to integration
ii. Independent variables: administrative laws of citizenship, naming
laws, local discretion,

3. You are going to be making a map of the secondary literature on your dependent
variable. What have others argued are the independent variables? Write out a list
of other independent variables that you have identified in the literature as other
viewpoints on your research question.
4. Put your dependent variable (the one your thesis is going to seek to explain or
analyze) at the top middle of the page. Put the competing independent variables
underneath.
5. For each independent variable, list the secondary sources you have found and will
use in your literature review to present this point of view.
6. Under the independent variables you plan to focus on in your study, chart out the
research you need to be informed about this variable and the secondary literature
you have found on the topics.
Contributed by B. Ramirez, International and Area Studies, [email protected]
Posted: 2009

Literature Map for Naming Laws and Turkish Mobilization in German: Administrative
Barriers to Integration

Ethnic Mobilization as a
Barrier to Integration

State top down Administrative laws State organization


Multicultural and of citizenship of Education
religion Policy

Burial Laws Naming laws Other?

Turkish German Name European


Name law law Name laws

ECHR
Cases on
Naming

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