Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper - Softcover

Fink, Arlene G.

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9781412909044: Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper

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ISBN 10: 141290904X ISBN 13: 9781412909044

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2004

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Conducting Research Literature Reviews, Second Edition shows readers how to identify, interpret, and analyze published and unpublished research literature. Through the use of checklists, case examples, and exercises, author Arlene Fink unravels the intricacies of literature reviews. The text also discusses the use of Boolean operators for simple and advanced searches and shows readers how to use bibliographic software to organize literature reviews and search "The Virtual File Cabinet." It also describes how to synthesize the literature as a stand-alone report or as a component of a paper or proposal.

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About the Author:

Arlene Fink (PhD) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and president of the Langley Research Institute. Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted scores of evaluation studies in public health, medicine, and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and is a scientific and evaluation advisor to UCLA’s Gambling Studies and IMPACT (Improving Access, Counseling & Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer) programs. She consults nationally and internationally for agencies such as L’institut de Promotion del la Pr�vention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) in Paris, France, and Peninsula Health in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fink has taught and lectured extensively all over the world and is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.

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This is a great book for students, both for classroom use and to keep on their bookshelves once they graduate. Author: Gail Spencer

"Classed with scientific research handbooks, Fink′s work provides examples of designs and analytical concepts from medical, educational, psychosocial, and business domains. She laudably holds qualitative and observational research designs to the same standards of reliability and validity as experimental research." Author: P.E. Sandstrom Source: CHOICE Published On: 2005-07-01

"This book is a textbook with apparatus: opening summaries of the each chapter ("A reader′s guide") exercises with suggested answers, and references cited in each chapter. But this book is much more than a how-to for students to learn how to design and write literature reviews. Fink devotes considerably space to the always tricky question of how to evaluate the actual articles you select to review." Author: Tom Warren Source: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication Published On: 2006-06-09

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