Seven Steps to a Comprehensive Literature Review
A Multimodal and Cultural Approach
- Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
- Rebecca Frels - Lamar University, USA
Literature Reviews | Research Methods & Evaluation (General) | Sociological Research Methods
What makes this book unique:
- Focuses on multimodal texts and settings such as observations, documents, social media, experts in the field and secondary data so that your review covers the full research environment
- Puts mixed methods at the centre of the process
- Shows you how to synthesize information thematically, rather than merely summarize the existing literature and findings
- Brings culture into the process to help you address bias and understand the role of knowledge interpretation, guiding you through
- Teaches the CORE of the literature review – Critical thinking, Organization, Reflections and Evaluation – and provides a guide for reflexivity at the end of each of the seven steps
- Visualizes the steps with roadmaps so you can track progress and self-evaluate as you learn the steps
This book is the essential best practices guide for students and researchers, providing the understanding and tools to approach both the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of a rigorous, comprehensive, literature review.
This book is a useful guide to writing literature reviews for a student or professional at any level. It is a step by step process which provides structure and direction. The text includes how to tackle a systemtic literature review, which any texts on litertaure reviewing do not.
The idea of an academically rigorous and yet manageable seven step process to undertaking and producing a literature review is extremely attractive to young researchers, and so it proved with this book when I presented it to a recent MA cohort. There are plenty of examples and explanations, encouraging confidence and opening up possibilities of approach that some were afraid to entertain. What is more, it inspired enthusiasm among those planning qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods.
This book is an essential guide for anybody who is embarking on doing a literature review. Through the seven- steps approach, it helps researchers to understand what literature review is really
about. The book provides readers with the theoretical background to doing a literature review and offers practical advice regarding choosing databases, storage of data and producing a high quality final report. A must-read!
This book has several elements that are of benefit to undergraduate students completing a dissertation in their final year of study. It gives a clear step by step breakdown of what the literature review is about, it's importance to a study and how it ties in with results and discussion chapters of a dissertation.
Many students struggle to prepare a literature review for their first paper: What literature should be included? How to research the relevant literature? How should I present contradicting arguments? This book gives clear answers and is a good guide for my second year bachelors.
This is going to be very useful for our Doctorate in Professional Studies candidates in their practice based doctoral projects by introducing in an accessible way key academic conventions to follow for people who may have been out of higher education for some time but are leaders in their professional fields.
Brilliant resource for postgraduate students in a developing economy context who are challenged by using English as an additional language.
Doing a literature review, either as the basis of data generation for further research, or as an end in itself, is often seen as an easy task. This book dispels this myth and guides researchers in the review process and equips them with the skills necessary to undertake such activities.
The literature review is a part of research our undergraduate students struggle with. This book clarifies the important issues in a step by step approach. Not all students need it, but it is well-structured for those who need extra support.
A clear, concise and well written text suitable for undergraduate students.
