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Synthesizing research : a guide for literature reviews / Harris Cooper.
LIBRA H62 .C5859 1998
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Lippincott Library H62 .C5859 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Harris M.
- Series:
- Applied social research methods series ; v. 2.
- Applied social research methods series ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Research.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998]
- Summary:
- Lauded by thousands of readers for providing researchers with the first practical approach for doing systematic literature reviews, this popular book has been thoroughly updated and revised to include the latest information on the use of electronic technology and the Internet to conduct literature searches.
- This new edition of Synthesizing Research includes expanded discussion of retrieving and coding information from research documents to the production of coding sheets, as well as updated coverage of report writing that includes APA's new guidelines and recent practices adopted by research syntheses.
- Contents:
- The problem formulation stage
- The literature search stage
- The data evaluation stage
- The data analysis stage
- The interpretation and presentation stage
- General issues.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Integrating research. 2nd ed. c1989.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0761913475
- 0761913483
- OCLC:
- 37527584
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