The Literature Review in Research and Dissertation Writing

by G. David Garson

A concise, illustrated introduction to writing the literature review section of scholarly articles and dissertations. New in the 2013 Double the pages, double the coverage Two dozen new illustrations New sections on bibliographic management software, defining search terms, bibliographic databases, integrated research reviews (IRR), and more. Unformatted table of literature General considerations5Select a citation style7Consider using bibliographic management software8Selecting search terms9Finding search terms9Selecting by overlapping subsets13Bibliographic databases15Google Scholar15Google Scholar tips16Academic Search Complete18AskGPO19Campbell Systematic Reviews20ERIC21GoPubMed22PsychINFO23Web of Knowledge/ Web of Science24Snowball searching27Documenting the search strategy30Overview30Example documentation31Format of the literature review32The introduction32The background section32The literature search strategy32The literature review grouped by hypotheses33The literature review sub-grouped by importance33The summary/conclusions section34Meta-analysis35Overview35The literature review in medicine36The meta-analytic schedule37Meta-analytic tables38From literature review to published article40Summary42Appendix Checklist for the format of the literature review43Appendix Checklist for meta-analysis45Appendix The integrative research review (IRR)47 52

61 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 28, 2013

Reviews

[Fran Fish · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stated the obvious

I was hoping for more guidance on dissertation structure. It on turn, stated only platitudes and could be reduced to a chart.