Literature Reviews Made Easy: A Quick Guide to Success

by Paula Dawidowicz

This book is designed to help you achieve one specific goal. It's not designed to give you the philosophies of conducting research. It's not designed to give you a background in a specific academic discipline or a specific topic. It's not designed to give you theory. It's designed specifically to instruct you in the practicalities of the writing process used to create strong, thorough, and potentially bulletproof literature reviews. This book is the culmination of years of research experience. It's also the culmination of several years of teaching writing and critical thinking to doctoral students. Although it began as a tool for doctoral students, it has been expanded to be useful for everyone from senior high school students through doctoral candidates working on developing their first literature review or a larger literature review than they normally develop. It has been created for everyone from academics to new business entrepreneurs with good ideas who are trying to write their first reviews to support the new idea they're proposing.

190 pages, Hardcover

First published October 7, 2010

Reviews

[Yeva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even though this book is not interesting; it is useful and succinct. To anyone "enjoying" the tedious task of writing annotated bibliographies and/or literature reviews, it is a helpful tool. Otherwise,...

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great overview of the entire process, with meaningful examples and succinct definitions.