Conducting research literature reviews : from paper to the Internet / Arlene Fink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fink, Arlene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research--Methodology.

Research.

Research--Evaluation.

Bibliography--Methodology.

Bibliography.

Physical Description:

xi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998]

Summary:

How can an individual identify and make sense of the voluminous amount of currently available information on nearly every important topic in education, health, social welfare, psychology, and business? What criteria can be used to distinguish between good and poor studies? Conducting Research Literature Reviews shows readers how to identify, interpret, and analyze published and unpublished research literature.

Given our access to unlimited amounts of information, Fink's book enables readers to evaluate the literature's quality and make sense of its findings. Conducting Research Literature Reviews is also a much-needed book for grant proposals. Every single grant proposal requires applicants to provide evidence that they know the literature and can justify the need for the grant on the basis of what is and is not known about a topic.

Contents:

Reviewing the literature: Why? For whom? How?

Screening for feasibility and quality. Pt. 1. Research design and sampling. Pt. 2. Data collection, interventions, analysis, results, and conclusions

Collecting information from the literature

What did you find? Summarizing results descriptively and statistically.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761909044

0761909052

OCLC:

38200246