Conducting Your Literature Review (Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science Research Series)

This book is a step-by-step guide to writing a literature review, and includes tips for modifying the process as needed depending on your audience, purpose, and goals. The lessons in this book can be applied to writing the background section for a thesis or an original research publication. Literature reviews are now much more challenging to compile today than they used to be. You need a structured approach to handle the sheer volume of published research available. This book will help you formulate a strategy for making decisions about what to include and not include in your review, and produce a reliable and unbiased summary of the existing research. You will learn skills for defining research questions, using search tools and managing citations. This book is part of the American Psychological Association’s Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science Research series. Aimed at undergraduate students in research methods courses or others with a lab or research project, each book describes a key stage in the research process. Collectively, these books provide a solid grounding in research from start to finish. This book is a step-by-step guide to writing a literature review, and includes tips for modifying the process as needed depending on your audience, purpose, and goals. The lessons in this book can be applied to writing the background section for a thesis or an original research publication. Literature reviews are now much more challenging to compile today than they used to be. You need a structured approach to handle the sheer volume of published research available. This book will help you formulate a strategy for making decisions about what to include and not include in your review, and produce a reliable and unbiased summary of the existing research. You will learn skills for defining research questions, using search tools and managing citations. This book is part of the American Psychological Association's Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science Research series. Aimed at undergraduate students in research methods courses or others with a lab or research project, each book describes a key stage in the research process. Collectively, these books provide a solid grounding in research from start to finish. "Literature reviews are much more challenging to compile today than they used to be. You need a structured approach to handle the sheer volume of published research available. In this step-by-step guide, Susanne Hempel will help you formulate a strategy for making decisions about what to include and not include in your review, and produce a reliable and unbiased summary of the existing research. You will learn skills for defining research questions, using search tools and managing citations as well as tips for modifiying the process as needed depending on your audience, purpose, and goals. This book is part of the American Psychological Association's Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science Research series. Aimed at undergraduate students in research methods courses or others with a lab or research project, each book describes a key stage in the research process. Collectively, these books provide a solid grounding in research from start to finish."-- Page 4 de la couverture Contents Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 What to Achieve: Clarifying the Goal of Your Literature Review Chapter 2 Where to Look: Choosing Databases and Other Sources of Literature Chapter 3 How to Look: Developing Search Strategies Chapter 4 What to Look For: Deciding What Literature to Include Chapter 5 How to Organize: Managing Your Material Chapter 6 How to Abstract: Extracting Key Information From the Literature Chapter 7 How to Assess: Critically Appraising Your Material Chapter 8 How to Synthesize: Determining What to Say About the Literature Chapter 9 How to Document: Writing Up Your Literature Review Further Reading Index About the Author About the Series Editor Provides a step-by-step guide to writing a literature review, and includes tips for modifying the process as needed depending on your audience, purpose, and goals. The lessons in this book can be applied to writing the background section for a thesis or an original research publication. This Guide To Conducting Literature Reviews Includes Strategies For Defining The Research Question, Using Search Tools And Managing Citations, And Ensuring An Unbiased Summary Of Existing Research.