The Literature Review in Research and Dissertation Writing (Statistical Associates Blue Book Series 41)

A concise, illustrated introduction to writing the literature review section of scholarly articles and dissertations.

New in the 2013 edition:
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 contents:
Introduction5
The literature review: General considerations5
Select a citation style7
Consider using bibliographic management software8
Selecting search terms9
Finding search terms9
Selecting by overlapping subsets13
Bibliographic databases15
Google Scholar15
Google Scholar tips16
Academic Search Complete18
AskGPO19
Campbell Systematic Reviews20
ERIC21
GoPubMed22
PsychINFO23
Web of Knowledge/ Web of Science24
Snowball searching27
Documenting the search strategy30
Overview30
Example documentation31
Format of the literature review32
The introduction32
The background section32
The literature search strategy32
The literature review grouped by hypotheses33
The literature review sub-grouped by importance33
The summary/conclusions section34
Meta-analysis35
Overview35
The literature review in medicine36
The meta-analytic schedule37
Meta-analytic tables38
From literature review to published article40
Summary42
Appendix A: Checklist for the format of the literature review43
Appendix B: Checklist for meta-analysis45
Appendix C: The integrative research review (IRR)47
Bibliography49
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