MINDMAP TO STORYBOARD

This assignment is broadly taken from Thomas (2025) Do It Yourself (DIY) 4.1 (Brainstorm a Mindmap on Your Topic) and 4.2 (Drawing a Storyboard) exercises. You may use any pay or free online mapping or storyboard generating software (NOT AI). Your drawings may be digital or hand-drawn, then scanned/photographed and copied/pasted into your MS Word document, applicable sections.

Part 1 – Drawing a Mindmap:

Begin with your prima facie (research question) question from Module / Week 2 Case Study Methodology Assignment (or a more appropriate edited version based on the instructors feedback of that assignment)

Select a minimum of 10 core sources

Broadly synthesize the sources to discover themes, disagreements, dilemmas, ideas, lines of inquiry, etc.

As you organize these sources, draw your mindmap (See Thomas (2025) Figure 4.2 Key Features of a Mindmap

o Besides your prima facie question, your mindmap should contain at least 5 nodes drawn from your prima facie question

o As you continue to organize and arrange material by relevance, you should include at least 5 buds which should sprout off of at least 2 nodes. You may need to do more research.

Part 2 Drawing a Storyboard:

If required, adjust your prima facie question to fit your desired research direction (see the Thomas (2025) Table 4.1 Prima Facie Questions to Revised Topics)

Chart a storyboard narrative of your intended literature review

o Besides your revised prima facie question, your storyboard should contain a minimum of 10 nodes or waypoints and 4 key references. Again, you may need to do more research.

o Your storyboard narrative should integrate a range of relevant issues

Provide an audit of your activities. More than a simple log of decisions, this should annotate your critical reflection and analysis that resulted in edits, changes to your research question, evolution of your research aims, and why.

Additional Requirements

Materials submitted to fulfill requirements in one course may not be submitted in another course. Concerns about the propriety of obtaining outside assistance and acknowledging sources should be addressed to the instructor of the course before the work commences and as necessary as the work proceeds.

In addition to the course texts and the Bible, the required references above will be from peer-reviewed scholarly sources that have publication dates no older than 5 years, exception: irrefutable seminal sources.

• Sources of information from Wikipedia, dictionaries, websites, blogs, and encyclopedias will not be accepted.