Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination / Edition 1

by Chris Hart

Overview

‘This book can provide an excellent framework for bolstering what is often an experiential process - doing a literature review. It is best seen alongside the supervisor, as a guide, through the multidimensional sea of academic literature' - British Educational Research Journal

‘I have been waiting for this book for five years. It sets out a number of important dimensions involved in the process of literature review and by clear signposting, diagrams, and examples will help the student to carry out her or his review more systematically. Learning how to carry out a literature review has always entailed the experiential. While this is a the best way of learning, it is only so providing that learning actually tak

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761959755
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/01/1999
Series:	SAGE Study Skills Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Chris Hart is Senior Lecturer in Management and Organizational Studies at the University of Central England, Birmingham.

Table of Contents

The Literature Review in Research
Reviewing and the Research Imagination
Classifying and Reading Research
Argumentation Analysis
Organizing and Expressing Ideas
Mapping and Analyzing Ideas
Writing the Review

Editorial Reviews

‘This book can provide an excellent framework for bolstering what is often an experiential process - doing a literature review. It is best seen alongside the supervisor, as a guide, through the multidimensional sea of academic literature' - British Educational Research Journal

‘I have been waiting for this book for five years. It sets out a number of important dimensions involved in the process of literature review and by clear signposting, diagrams, and examples will help the student to carry out her or his review more systematically. Learning how to carry out a literature review has always entailed the experiential. While this is a the best way of learning, it is only so providing that learning actually takes place during the experience (or by reflection afterwards). This book makes explicit those dimensions which could remain implicit or even missed by the student as they wade through all those books, papers, articles, and print-outs' - Kevin Maguire, Nottingham Trent University

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