Using Research Strategies to Make Your Literature Review Manageable

Research is infinite—but your literature review is not. How do you know what sources to review and how to access those sources? Come to this workshop to learn research strategies that will help you narrow your research topic, cover the essentials of that topic, organize your bibliography and set parameters that will result in a comprehensive and concise literature review. Specifically, will offer insight into the meta-study method, utilizing a content analysis to systematically analyze existing research.

Speaker Biography:

Dr. Andrew R. Smolski is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences and Applied Research Director for the Southern Ag Exchange Network. His research focuses on the sociology of agriculture and food systems, with an emphasis on environmental, economic, and health outcomes in Latin America and the United States. He collaborates with scholars from Animal Sciences, Crop Sciences, and Agriculture and Human Sciences, building interdisciplinary projects. He has published in Journal of Agromedicine, Social Currents, Journal of World-Systems Research, Capital & Class, Agriculture, and Development in Practice. As coordinating editor of Latin American Perspectives, a generalist Latin American Studies peer-reviewed journal, he reviews and edits manuscripts in English, Spanish and Portuguese from a global network of scholars. He is also coordinating editor for the Farm Stress Brief Series, an Extension publication housed at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture.