EDC&I 583
Review of Literature –
Criteria for Selection
These criteria were suggested in our class discussion on
The content:
Relevance to message design generally
Relevance and applicability to educational aspects of MD
Graphical excellence (of the material, data cited; by someone's standards)
Number of
times the article has been cited by others
Where the article
has been indexed
References
– quality/quantity of those included in the article
The journal:
Peer
reviewed journal
Sponsorship of the journal (professional association, society, etc.)
Any details you can determine about the readership of the journal
The author:
Author's
reputation
Author's
institutional affiliation
Place of the article in relation to author's other work
Place of
the author in respect to others working on similar topics
The context:
Connections
to projects, design efforts, other empirical studies (if mentioned in article)
Citations
of the article by respected sources
Recency of
the article (where relevant)
Recency of
the study/data cited
For information on some of these issues, you may want to
consult the ISI
Web of Knowledge, available through the UW Libraries site.