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Succeeding with Your Literature Review: a Handbook for Students (ePub eBook)


Succeeding with Your Literature Review: a Handbook for Students (ePub eBook)

eBook by Oliver, Paul

Succeeding with Your Literature Review: a Handbook for Students (ePub eBook)

£19.99

ISBN:
9780335243693
Publication Date:
16 Feb 2012
Publisher:
Open University Press
Pages:
160 pages
Format:
eBook
For delivery:
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Succeeding with Your Literature Review: a Handbook for Students (ePub eBook)

Description

An excellent and accessible text that will help all students and scholars to develop a strong review and enable them to outline and analyse the key ideas for their study. The structure of the book is really well thought out and the chapters are written in a way which readers will find helpful and easy to understand. I would highly recommend this book to research students.Professor Mark Brundrett, Liverpool John Moores University, UKThis step-by-step handbook provides comprehensive and practical guidance on the process of researching a range of relevant literature on a subject, as well as planning and writing a literature review. The book takes a student friendly approach to offer complete novices a simple review of a process which is often central to producing a research study. Succeeding with your Literature Review will enable you to:O Design a literature review which is related to the main facets of a research projectO Conduct a logically-planned search for relevant literature O Determine which literature is most suited to inclusion in your studyO Analyse the literature, drawing comparisons and connections where appropriateO Appraise the strengths and weaknesses of relevant literatureO Write logically and rationally about the key features of literature O Write a literature review in a sound academic styleO Understand how to relate a literature review to other elements of your study or dissertationWritten by an author with extensive experience of supervising and examining undergraduate, Masters and doctoral dissertations, this book covers the latest trends, such as: RSS feeds, wikis, grey literature, blogs and forms of open access publishing. The book also includes examples of common pitfalls, good practice, key terms and questions to reinforce student learning and reflection. Succeeding with your Literature Review is relevant in all subject areas and is essential reading for third year undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Contents

1. The Nature and Purpose of a Literature Review 2. The Content of a Literature Review 3. Doing a Literature Search 4. How to Select Literature for Inclusion 5. Analyzing and Categorizing the Literature Critically 6. The Structure of a Literature Review 7. Writing the Review 8. Relating the Review to the Rest of the Dissertation

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