In this teaching practice byte (TPB), Dr. Brian Harrington discusses his SIGCSE Techincal Symposium 2025 paper on Literature Mapping, a scaffolded, scalable, low-overhead way to introduce undergraduate students to research and bootstrap a student research group. We discuss how literature mapping helps students practice reading many papers in progressively more depth. His process assigns each paper to two different students, builds in flexibility for students who leave partway through, and culminates in a publishable artifact that students can be proud of. Moreover, he has found this helps him build a community that goes beyond the students graduating. Dr. Harrington has packaged up his process into a GitHub Repository and would love for anyone to adapt what he does to their own school.
See the transcript on the website (https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e15_lit_mapping)
