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The literature review : a step-by-step guide for students / Diana Ridley.
LIBRA LB2369 .R525 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ridley, Diana, Dr.
- Series:
- Sage study skills
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Research.
- Academic writing.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2008.
- Summary:
- This is a "concise step-by-step guide to conducting a literature search and writing up the literature review chapter in Masters' dissertations and in PhD and professional doctorate theses" -- p.[4] of t.p.
- Contents:
- The multiple purposes of a literature review
- Sources of information and conducting searches
- Reading and note taking strategies
- Reference management : keeping records and organizing information
- Structuring the literature review
- In-text citations
- Being critical
- Foregrounding writer voice
- The continuing process.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-163) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781412934251
- 1412934257
- 9781412934268
- 1412934265
- OCLC:
- 181069250
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