Doing a Literature Review

Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (SAGE Study Skills Series) [Hardcover]

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`This book can provide an excellent framework for bolstering what is often an experiential process - doing a literature review. It is best seen alongside the supervisor, as a guide, through the multidimensional sea of academic literature' - British Educational Research Journal

`I have been waiting for this book for five years. It sets out a number of important dimensions involved in the process of literature review and by clear signposting, diagrams, and examples will help the student to carry out her or his review more systematically. Learning how to carry out a literature review has always entailed the experiential. While this is a the best way of learning, it is only so providing that learning actually tak

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• Series: SAGE Study Skills Series
• Hardcover: 230 pages
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd (March 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761959742
• ISBN-13: 978-0761959748
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,820,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

When I purchased this book, I was looking for a potential text for a short-course on writing the disseration I'm teaching. I really expected the standard "here's how to search through the library and databases." This is simply much more that that. It's less about how to do the review itself and more about how to think about your topic. In fact, Hart raises the questions I should have been asking myself--if only I had known--and my advisor wasn't. How much better my work would have been if I'd had an understanding of how to analyze a text from various perspectives. Many texts offer advice on how to write but few talk about how to think about your question and how to fit it within the context of work in your discipline. Hart does this.

By Margaret L. FalerSweany

Hart, Chris. 1998. Doing a literature review. Releasing the social science imagination. London: Sage Publications.
Chris Hart's guide to doing a literature review presents a comprehensive perspective on the literature review as a research tool. While it is addressed to scholars in the social sciences, this book is useful in most areas of design research. Hart discusses the role of literature in research. He explains how reviewing earlier work releases the imagination rather than constraining it. He shows how to classify and read research literature, how to analyze arguments, and how to organize and express ideas. He also teaches the reader useful ways to map and analyze the ideas that each body of literature reveals. Finally, he demonstrates in careful, clear stages how to develop and write the literature review. At each point, Hart develops a serious, well-reasoned explanation that helps the scholar to understand why each step is important and how to do it well.
Book review published in Design Research News, Volume 6, Number 5, May 2001 ISSN 1473-3862.

By Ken Friedman

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