Seven Steps to a Comprehensive Literature Review
A Multimodal and Cultural Approach
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.
students felt this book helped them gain confidence and worry less about writing a Literature Review, I think the books offers a very inclusive approach
This comprehensive guide to doing a literature review makes the process clearer to understand through the seven step process. It teaches critical thinking, organisation, reflections and evaluation; providing the tools needed to develop a rigorous and comprehensive literature review.
The book is a comprehensive text covering almost avery aspect of literature reviews. Therefore it is, in a graduate (Bachelor) course, suitable as a reference book rather than as a textbook accompanying the lessons. However it might be very useful as a companion for Master courses.
Essential textbook for students
Very appropriate to enable development of research skills.
An essential book for those who take this approach, which on the other hand is a small minority. Will be recommended to thesis students and BSc students as well.
It is a very comprehensive writing, very useful for my students. I have adopted this title for my supervision students and will be in use from September 2016
I have been searching for a textbook like this for some time. There is a lot out there for our students who choose to carry out empirical esearch, but far less for those who decide to go down the literature review path. Very helpful.
This is a comprehensive approach to doing a literature review, with wonderful, practical information from how and where to store your notes and the different ways you can structure the literature. Lecturers take it for granted that students can collate and organise their notes. But students often find it overwhelming. This book can help overcome that.
A comprehensive and detailed resource in exploring and understanding the value of carrying out an informed literature review. Enables the exploration of the complexities of ensuring the rationale and validity of the literature review process.
