Reviewing literature / Chris Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Chris, author.

Series:

Student success.

SAGE skills: student success

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Bibliography--Methodology.

Bibliography.

Information resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A literature review is an analysis, critical evaluation, and synthesis of existing knowledge relevant to your research problem, question, or the issue you are aiming to say something intelligent about. In your analysis, you select from different concepts, theories, arguments, and interpretations that seem relevant to the development of your work. It is important to critically evaluate the concepts, arguments, and different interpretations others have made in the literature. In critically evaluating, you interrogate the work of others (regardless of their standing in the academic community), looking at the chain of reasoning an author has used and the evidence they have offered to support their argument. This is an important skill to develop because you need to be able to demonstrate you have the ability to deconstruct an argument made by someone else and are able to structure your own argument. Finally, after much reading, note-taking, and organising concepts, arguments and different interpretations that other authors have made, you write your synthesis of the literature - your literature review. Being able to construct your own review of the literature is important because it shows you have a range of skills and have been able to apply them to your own research question. In this Skill, Reviewing the Literature, you will learn about 1. What a literature review looks like 2. Why review of the literature on your topic is needed 3. What the literature is and how to distinguish between valid and not so valid sources of information 4. Why it is important to have the correct words and phrases to search for information 5. How to search more effectively and efficiently for sources 6. How to find out how to cite your sources (references) 7. The need to be systematic in searching for sources 8. The main types of literature review you can use 9. Questioning evidence in an argument 10. Using tools to help organise your information 11. Using different structures to write different kinds of literature review.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (SAGE, viewed December 27, 2022).

ISBN:

1-0718-8240-6

9781071882405

OCLC:

1309055692