Full Description
Mastering literature reviews is crucial for academic success. This updated edition of Diana Ridley's bestselling book is your essential guide. It offers step-by-step instructions for conducting literature searches and reviews, helping you to streamline the process.
Presenting a clear and detailed roadmap to ensure you don't miss a step, the book will:
· Equip you with practical strategies for conducting a systematic search of the available literature.
· Help you critically assess the quality of digital literature to enhance your practical skills and critical thinking.
· Test your understanding and help you monitor your progress with updated checklists, tasks, and end-of-chapter exercises.
· Demonstrate best practices by drawing on expanded examples from a wide range of disciplines.
· Help you develop your citation practices to present a powerful argument in your literature review.
Ideal for undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students, this book is a must-have for anyone tackling a literature review as part of their research project.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The multiple purposes of a literature review
3. Sources of information and conducting searches
4. Reading and note-taking strategies
5. Reference management: keeping records and organising information
6. Structuring the literature review
7. In-text citations
8. Being critical
9. Foregrounding writer voice
10. The continuing process
11. A systematic literature review
