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This book is designed to help you achieve one specific goal. It’s not designed to give you the philosophies of conducting research. It’s not designed to give you a background in a specific academic discipline or a specific topic. It’s not designed to give you theory. It’s designed specifically to instruct you in the practicalities of the writing process used to create strong, thorough, and potentially bulletproof literature reviews.
This book is the culmination of years of research experience. It’s also the culmination of several years of teaching writing and critical thinking to doctoral students. Although it began as a tool for doctoral students, it has been expanded to be useful for everyone from senior high school students through doctoral candidates working on developing their first literature review or a larger literature review than they normally develop. It has been created for everyone from academics to new business entrepreneurs with good ideas who are trying to write their first reviews to support the new idea they’re proposing.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. The Literature Review Process.
Chapter 3. Objective Research.
Chapter 4. Generalizability and Transferability.
Chapter 5. Quoting and Paraphrasing.
Chapter 6. Selecting Quality Sources for Your Review.
Chapter 7. Brainstorming: Examples of Factors to Consider.
Chapter 8. Creating an Initial Outline for Your Literature Review.
Chapter 9. Types of Article Examination Used in a Literature Review.
Chapter 10. What is an Analysis?
Chapter 11. Creating Structure for an Analysis.
Chapter 12. What is a Comparison?
Chapter 13. Contrast: The Important Other Side of the Coin.
Chapter 14. Differentiating Between Strong and Weak Comparisons and Contrasts.
Chapter 15. Evaluation of Importance of the Literature to a Topic of Interest.
Chapter 16. Maximizing Your Evaluation.
Chapter 17. How Does Synthesizing Ideas Create a Framework?
Chapter 18. What Does a Synthesis Look Like?
Chapter 19. Synthesis and Integration: Complementing Ideas.
Chapter 20. Analysis, Comparison, Contrast, Evaluation, Synthesis, and Integration.
Chapter 21. Organizing Your Assessment of the Literature.
Chapter 22. Separating Your Ideas from Authors' Ideas.
Chapter 23. Peer Critiquing.
Chapter 24. Reviewing Completed Publications.
Chapter 25. Expanding and Revising.
Chapter 26. Structuring Your Work.
Chapter 27. Formulating Introductions.
Chapter 28. Formulating Conclusions.
Chapter 29. Revisions and Editing.
Chapter 30. Summary of the Writing Process.
Chapter 31. Review of Analysis Methods.
Appendix A: Article Assessment Form.