| Edition |
Electronic edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 145 pages). |
| Series |
Concise guides to conducting behavioral, health, and social science research series |
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Concise guides to conducting behavioral, health, and social science research series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
What to Achieve: Clarifying the Goal of Your Literature Review -- Where to Look: Choosing Databases and Other Sources of Literature -- How to Look: Developing Search Strategies -- What to Look For: Deciding What Literature to Include -- How to Organize: Managing Your Material -- How to Abstract: Extracting Key Information From the Literature -- How to Assess: Critically Appraising Your Material -- How to Synthesize: Determining What to Say About the Literature -- How to Document: Writing Up Your Literature Review. |
| Summary |
This book is a step-by-step guide to writing a literature review, and includes tips for modifying the process as needed depending on your audience, purpose, and goals. The lessons in this book can be applied to writing the background section for a thesis or an original research publication. Literature reviews are now much more challenging to compile today than they used to be. You need a structured approach to handle the sheer volume of published research available. This book will help you formulate a strategy for making decisions about what to include and not include in your review, and produce a reliable and unbiased summary of the existing research. You will learn skills for defining research questions, using search tools and managing citations. This book is part of the American Psychological Association's Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science Research series. Aimed at undergraduate students in research methods courses or others with a lab or research project, each book describes a key stage in the research process. Collectively, these books provide a solid grounding in research from start to finish. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 26, 2019). |
| Subject |
Psychology -- Research -- Methodology.
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Psychology -- Information resources.
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Psychology -- Authorship.
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Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
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Psychology -- Authorship.
(OCoLC)fst01081452
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Psychology -- Research -- Methodology.
(OCoLC)fst01081515
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Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
(OCoLC)fst01122961
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PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hempel, Susanne. Conducting your literature review Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2020] 9781433830921 (DLC) 2019011722 |
| ISBN |
1433831236 electronic book |
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9781433831232 electronic book |
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9781433830921 paperback |
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1433830922 paperback |
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