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• Title:The literature review : a step-by-step guide for students / Diana Ridley.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ridley, Diana, Dr.
  
• Published/Created:London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.
  

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  • Call Number: LB2369 .R525 2012
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Research.
  Research--Evaluation.
  Academic writing.
  Report writing.
  
• Medical Subjects: Research.
  Review Literature as Topic.
  Academic writing.
  Report writing.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:viii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:Sage study skills.
  
• Summary:This title is a concise, step-by-step guide to conducting a literature search and writing up the literature review chapter in a master dissertation or a professional doctorate thesis.
  
• Notes:Previous ed.: 2008.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781446201428 (hardback)
  1446201422 (hardback)
  9781446201435 (pbk.)
  1446201430 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  What is a literature review?
  literature review at different degree levels
  Why is it important to undertake a literature review as part of your research?
  Where do we find the literature review in a dissertation or thesis?
  Structuring your literature review
  Task 1.1 Choosing a literature review approach
  Summary
  Overview
  2. multiple purposes of a literature review
  multiple purposes
  Historical background
  Contemporary context
  Theoretical underpinnings
  Definitions and discussion of terminology used in the research
  Signalling a gap in previous research and using this to justify your own
  significance of a problem for research
  Task 2.1 Reflecting on your own research
  Summary
  3. Sources of information and conducting searches
  What is a literature search?
  What are the purposes of a literature search?
  Sources of information
  Evaluating online sources of information
  Different types of research
  Tools for finding relevant sources
  process of conducting a literature search
  use of key words and Boolean logic
  Keeping up to date: RSS feeds and email alerts
  Social bookmarking
  Task 3.1 Tracking and recording your search
  Summary
  4. Reading and note-taking strategies
  Techniques for reading efficiently
  Critical reading
  Increasing your reading speed
  Reasons for note taking
  Techniques for note taking
  Three main formats for note taking
  Your own comments
  Handwritten notes vs computer notes
  Making connections between different texts: using key words
  Making connections between different texts: a tabular comparison
  Techniques for writing a summary
  Task 4.1 Applying the principles to your field
  Summary
  5. Reference management: keeping records and organising information
  Managing the process
  record of key word searches
  record of bibliographic details
  personal library
  Copyright legislation
  Bibliographical software packages
  Task 5.1 Record keeping for your own research
  Summary
  6. Structuring the literature review
  processes involved in the creation of a literature review
  Beginning to write
  structure of the literature review
  Developing the structure of your review
  Task 6.1 Structuring your own literature review
  relationship between the introduction and the literature review
  Task 6.2 Reflecting on your own research field
  Summary
  7. In-text citations
  Why do we reference?
  What is plagiarism?
  What type of information requires a reference?
  Referencing systems
  Integral and non-integral references
  Disciplinary difference in reference type
  Types of citation
  Disciplinary difference in citation type
  Choice of reporting verb
  Disciplinary difference in reporting verbs
  Tense of reporting verb
  Choice of tense in the clause or sentence where the information is reported
  Effective and unacceptable citations
  Text matching software: Turnitin
  Task 7.1 Analysing reference techniques in your own research field
  Summary
  8. Being critical
  difference between critical reading and critical writing
  Being critical in writing
  How different researchers adopt a critical approach in their writing
  Task 8.1 Critical writing in your own research field
  Summary
  9. Foregrounding writer voice
  What is writer voice?
  organisation of the text
  Unattributed assertions followed by support from citations
  Making explicit connections between citations
  Summary and evaluation of source material
  Overall summary at end of section or chapter
  use of personal pronouns
  choice of citation pattern
  evaluative potential of different reporting verbs
  Evaluative adjectives, adverbs and phrases
  mixture of evaluative strategies
  Task 9.1 Reflecting on the writer's voice in your own research
  Summary
  10. continuing process
  literature review process
  Referring to the literature in your discussion chapter
  Task 10.1 Reflecting on making the connections in your own research
  Findings support an existing theory
  Comparing a new model and an existing theory
  Explaining a finding using the literature
  Contribution of current research to existing theory
  Interpreting the data using the literature
  Application of theory to the findings
  Summary
  11. systematic literature review
  What is a systematic literature review?
  process of conducting a systematic literature review
  What is a meta-analysis?
  Narrative synthesis
  example of a systematic review
  Appraisal of a systematic literature review
  Task 11.1 Searching for and critiquing a systematic literature review in your field
  Summary
  Further reading.