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Articles about disability and discrimination were very powerful, but they were not within the scope of my review. For example, I wanted to specifically look at autoethnographic articles which were located in the educational world. And I made my choices based on the knowledge that I wanted to accumulate. Each article I read led me to another, then another, then another. Key texts (which I knew existed, as I had read them) didn’t appear.Īt the same time as conducting my systematic review, I was reading a minimum of one article on autoethnography per day. My days as working in a library mean that I’m pretty au fait with boolean operators and the like – however, my searches yielded very few results. So I begin my systematic review, looking for autoethnographic articles on Web of Science, HeinOnline, LexisNexis etc. Initially, a systematic review of the literature appealed to me.

I’ll be posting a fuller explanation of autoethnography in due course, but for the purposes of this post all you need to know is that this type of research uses self-examination and story in order to promote new ways of thinking, and help others make sense of their own lives and culture. The methodology for my Professional Doctorate is autoethnography.

But before we get down to the mechanics of Excel…. I promised I would write a post about it. Abandon your Word tables! Using Excel to manage your literature review can make research quicker, easier – and yes – fun.Ī short while ago, David posted this comment on How I use Scrivener for academic writing: