The Literature Review in Research and Dissertation Writing
Author:
G. David GarsonPublisher:
Statistical Associates PublishersPublication Date:
04-29-2013ISBN:
9781626380097Subjects:
EducationReference Books
Available as:
Electronic book text, 9781626380097Description:
A concise, illustrated introduction to writing literature reviews for articles and dissertations.
Unformatted table of contents:
Introduction 5
The literature review: General considerations 5
Select a citation style 7
Consider using bibliographic management software 8
Selecting search terms 9
Finding search terms 9
Selecting by overlapping subsets 13
Bibliographic databases 15
Google Scholar 15
Google Scholar tips 16
Academic Search Complete 18
AskGPO 19
Campbell Systematic Reviews 20
ERIC 21
GoPubMed 22
PsychINFO 23
Web of Knowledge/ Web of Science 24
Snowball searching 27
Documenting the search strategy 30
Overview 30
Example documentation 31
Format of the literature review 32
The introduction 32
The background section 32
The literature search strategy 32
The literature review grouped by hypotheses 33
The literature review sub-grouped by importance 33
The summary/conclusions section 34
Meta-analysis 35
Overview 35
The literature review in medicine 36
The meta-analytic schedule 37
Meta-analytic tables 38
From literature review to published article 40
Summary 42
Appendix A: Checklist for the format of the literature review 43
Appendix B: Checklist for meta-analysis 45
Appendix C: The integrative research review (IRR) 47
Bibliography 49
Pagecount: 52
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