Conducting Your Literature Review (Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science Research Series) - Softcover

Hempel PhD, Susanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433830922 ISBN 13: 9781433830921

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2019

Synopsis

This book is a step-by-step guide to writing a literature review, and includes tips for modifying the process as needed depending on your audience, purpose, and goals. The lessons in this book can be applied to writing the background section for a thesis or an original research publication.
 
Literature reviews are now much more challenging to compile today than they used to be. You need a structured approach to handle the sheer volume of published research available. This book will help you formulate a strategy for making decisions about what to include and not include in your review, and produce a reliable and unbiased summary of the existing research. You will learn skills for defining research questions, using search tools and managing citations.
 
This book is part of the American Psychological Association’s Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science Research series. Aimed at undergraduate students in research methods courses or others with a lab or research project, each book describes a key stage in the research process. Collectively, these books provide a solid grounding in research from start to finish.

About this title

Book Description:

This book will help students formulate a strategy for making clear decisions about what to include and not include in their literature reviews, and avoid getting overwhelmed by the sheer volume of available research. It will also help them understand the steps that are needed to produce a reliable and unbiased summary of the existing research.

About the Author:

Susanne Hempel, PhD, is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She is the co-director of the Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center, leading contracts for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She carries out systematic reviews in healthcare research and methodological projects aiming to improve evidence syntheses. Hempel teaches systematic review methodology and applied psychometrics. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.

About this edition

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1433830922
• ISBN 13: 9781433830921
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 145