Assignment: MindMap To Story Board Assignment Instructions
Overview
Scanning and scoping your literature review is one of the most difficult tasks in conducting a research project, as the pool of sources is so vast, yet narrowing the focus is challenging. A visual representation of your research (potentially useful literature and then research focus) will help you see and understand relationships. This assignment will provide an opportunity to exercise this task of 'visualizing' your literature review through midmapping to storyboarding. Biblical integration is NOT required in this assignment. Need Assignment Help?
Instructions:
After reviewing the required material stated in this week's module, complete the following using the current APA format. 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:
1. 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 instructor's feedback of that assignment)
2. Select a minimum of 10 core sources
3. Broadly synthesize the sources to discover themes, disagreements, dilemmas, ideas, lines of inquiry, etc.
4. As you organize these sources, draw your MindMap (See Thomas' (2025) Figure 4.2 Key Features of a Mindmap
- Besides your prima facie question, your MindMap should contain at least 5 'nodes' drawn from your prima facie question
- 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:
1) 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)
2) Chart a storyboard narrative of your intended literature review
- 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.
- Your storyboard narrative should integrate a range of relevant issues
3) 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.
Required Format:
- Cover page
- Prima Facie Question
- Core Sources
- Mindmap
- Revised Prima Facie Question
- Storyboard
- Audit
- References
Additional Requirements:
Use the provided Mindmap to Storyboard Assignment Template.
- 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.