Preparing Literature Reviews

M. Ling Pan

• 01 maart 2013
• 9781936523115

Samenvatting:

• Illustrates all the steps in preparing qualitative and quantitative literature reviews.

• Emphasizes topic selection, locating literature, and avoiding major pitfalls in evaluating and synthesizing literature.

• Shows how to improve literature reviews through the judicious inclusion of statistical results found in the literature.

• Provides easy-to-follow advice on how to avoid misrepresenting the results of published research in literature reviews.

• The numerous examples throughout the text and the nine model literature reviews clarify the process of following the guidelines for writing solid, state-of-the-art literature reviews.

• Shows students how to blend qualitative and quantitative approaches to preparing literature reviews without being overly mathematical.