An Overview of Sense-making Research: Concepts, Methods, and Results to Date Brenda Dervin (1983)

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Sense-Making approach to research – its assumptions, methods, and results to date. The intent is to provide this overview in a semi-outline form to facilitate its speedy use by the reader.

No attempt is made in this paper to fully document all studies done using the Sense-Making approach to date of the extensive literature reviews on which development of the approach has been based.

Author

Brenda Dervin

Paper

• An overview of sense-making research

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