Table 1 Overview of themes related to significant analytical questions (AQ) within New Literacy Studies (NLS)
From: Characteristics of dental note taking: a material based themed analysis of Swedish dental students
AQ1: What do students write? | |
T1: Professional vocabulary | Concepts and/or descriptions |
T2: Core content | Teacher accentuated content |
T3: Clinical examples | Content related to clinical practice |
AQ2: How do students write? | |
T4: Multimodal accentuation | Strategies to accentuate content and relations. For instance, color coding, arrows, drawing pictures, pictures and images, upper case letters, tags, visual symbols |
T5: Synthesis | Students combine PowerPoints from lectures and individual notes, including a presentation comprising a general and detailed structure, usually performed on a computer |
AQ3: Why do students write? | |
T6: Mnemonic strategies | Knowledge and understanding |
T7: Academic purposes | Exam-preparation |
T8: Professional purposes | Professional knowledge and support; a) clinical skills as student and dentist b) the development of professional literacy |