Literature Reviews
IMPORTANT NOTE: Scroll down to review the resources on this page, then click on each tab at the left to walk through the literature review process step-by-step.
Literature Reviews: A Helpful Video
Watch this short video to get an overview of what a literature review is.
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Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0.Literature Reviews - Helpful Books & Book Chapters
The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing by ISBN: 9780470949184Publication Date: 2011-02-09eBook
The chapter on literature reviews is located in Part 3: Preparing Scholarly Manuscripts, Chapter 11, page 145
Focusing on writing for publication, The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing discusses the components of a manuscript, types of manuscripts, and the submission process. It shows how to craft scholarly papers and other writing suitable for submission to academic journals. The handbook covers how to develop writing skills by offering guidance on becoming an excellent manuscript reviewer and outlining what makes a good review, and includes advice on follow-through with editors, rejection, and rewrites and re-submittals.
Literature Reviews Made Easy by ISBN: 1617351911Publication Date: 2010-10-01eBook
This book is designed to help you achieve one specific goal. It's not designed to give you the philosophies of conducting research. It's not designed to give you a background in a specific academic discipline or a specific topic. It's not designed to give you theory. It's designed specifically to instruct you in the practicalities of the writing process used to create strong, thorough, and potentially bulletproof literature reviews. This book is the culmination of years of research experience. It's also the culmination of several years of teaching writing and critical thinking to doctoral students. Although it began as a tool for doctoral students, it has been expanded to be useful for everyone from senior high school students through doctoral candidates working on developing their first literature review or a larger literature review than they normally develop. It has been created for everyone from academics to new business entrepreneurs with good ideas who are trying to write their first reviews to support the new idea they're proposing.
The Psychologist's Companion by ISBN: 0521144825Publication Date: 2010-09-30eBook
The chapter on literature reviews is Chapter 4: Writing a Literature Review
The Psychologist's Companion is intended for students as well as young professionals and writers at all stages of their careers seeking inspiration and guidelines for better scientific writing. This book is also a resource for researchers in related fields. It has been comprehensively updated, revised, and extended for its fifth edition and includes the latest style guidelines of the American Psychological Association's Publication Manual (sixth edition, 2009) as well as chapters encompassing the entire research process from doing literature research and planning an experiment to writing the paper. It features new chapters on literature research; ethics; and generating, evaluating, and selling ideas. The Psychologist's Companion also provides information on writing book proposals, grant proposals, and lectures.
Student Research and Report Writing by ISBN: 1118963938Publication Date: 2015-11-17eBook
The chapter on literature reviews is Chapter 4: Reviewing the Literature, page 58.
This is an invaluable, concise, all-in-one guide for carrying out student research and writing a paper, adaptable to course use and suitable for use by students independently, it successfully guides students along every step of the way. Allows students to better manage their research projects Exercises and worksheets break down the research process into small steps and walk students through each stage of the research project Offers real-world and lively examples that are attractive and relevant to students Based on twenty years of experience in teaching research techniques to students in a way that avoids the methodology "overkill" from encyclopaedic and intimidating textbooks Accompanying website includes powerpoint lecture slides for instructors and helpful links to video resources for student. Visit www.wiley.com\go\wang\researchreportwriting
