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The Literature Review: Six Steps to Success
ISBN: 9781412961349 | 1412961343
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Corwin Pr
Pub. Date: 7/10/2008
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Lawrence A. Machi is a professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership at the University of La Verne, in La Verne, California.
"Machi and McEvoy have crafted a guide that is absolutely elegant in its simplicity. The writers take the reader from the simple to the complex in an extremely well-written, logical sequence of bite-sized steps. This is the most useful guide to writing a literature review available anywhere." -Leonard O. Pellicer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of South Carolina A clea... MORE
"Machi and McEvoy have crafted a guide that is absolutely elegant in its simplicity. The writers take the reader from the simple to the complex in an extremely well-written, logical sequence of bite-sized steps. This is the most useful guide to writing a literature review available anywhere." -Leonard O. Pellicer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of South Carolina A clea... MORE
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| About the Authors | |
| The Literature Review Process: Getting Started | |
| The Purpose of a Literature Review | |
| The Literature Review Definition | |
| The Literature Review Process | |
| Inquiry: The Necessary Precondition | |
| Pack Wisely Before You Begin | |
| Tips | |
| Summary | ... MORE |
| Checklist | |
| Selecting the Topic: Everyday Interest to Research Interest | |
| Introduction: Selecting a Research Topic | |
| Choosing a Research Interest | |
| Exercises | |
| Researcher Bias | |
| Specifying a Research Interest | |
| Focusing the Interest | |
| Selecting a Vantage Point | |
| Reflection: The Key to Interest Selection | |
| From Research Interest to Research Topic | |
| Accessing the Research Conversation: Formalizing the Research Topic | |
| Tips | |
| Summary | |
| Checklist | |
| Searching the Literature: Tasks and Tools | |
| Introduction: Searching the Literature | |
| Discovering the Literature to Review | |
| Conducting a Literature Search | |
| Previewing the Data: Scanning the Literature | |
| Using the Internet | |
| Managing Your Data | |
| Selecting the Data: Skimming the Literature | |
| Mapping: An Overview | |
| Mapping by Core Concept | |
| Mapping by Author Contribution | |
| Refining the Topic | |
| Expanding the Topic | |
| Tips | |
| Summary | |
| Checklist | |
| Developing the Argument: Making the Case for the Literature Review | |
| Introduction: Arguments and the Literature Review | |
| Building the Case for the Literature Review | |
| Arguments | |
| Evaluating the Basic Parts of an Argument | |
| Claims | |
| Types of Claims | |
| Acceptability of Claims | |
| Data Versus Evidence | |
| Data Quality | |
| Data Relevance | |
| Qualifying the Claim | |
| Warranting: Building the Rationale for the Argument | |
| Multiple Claims Arguments | |
| Tips | |
| Summary | |
| Checklist | |
| Doing the Literature Survey: Building the Argument of Discovery | |
| Introduction: The Next Steps | |
| The Survey of the Literature | |
| Assembly | |
| Assembling the Data | |
| Recording the Data | |
| Synthesis | |
| Synthesizing the Information, Building Evidence | |
| Integrating the Data, Building Claims | |
| Reasoning Patterns | |
| Analyzing, Building the Argument of Discovery | |
| Complex Reasoning | |
| Divergent Reasoning | |
| Comparative Reasoning | |
| Building the Discovery Argument: An Example | |
| Mapping the Argument of Discovery | |
| Analyzing the Argument | |
| Tips | |
| Summary | |
| Checklist | |
| The Literature Critique: Interpreting the Research | |
| The Literature Critique | |
| Implicative Reasoning: The Literature Critique | |
| The Two Arguments | |
| Argument Patterns | |
| Backing | |
| Fallacies | |
| The Case Is Everything | |
| Tips | |
| Summary | |
| Checklist | |
| Writing the Review: Write, Audit, Edit | |
| The Writing Process: An Overview | |
| Writing to Understand: An Overview | |
| Exploratory Writing: Creating Writing Readiness | |
| Exploratory Writing: The Literature Review | |
| Outlining: An Overview | |
| Some Common Outlining Mistakes | |
| Outlining the Literature Review | |
| The Introduction to the Literature Review | |
| The Body of the Literature Review | |
| The Background of the Study | |
| The Thesis Argument | |
| The Summation of the Literature Review | |
| Auditing and Editing the Outline | |
| Tips on Writing | |
| Drafts | |
| The Preliminary Draft: An Overview | |
| The Preliminary Draft: The Write | |
| Tips on Writing the Early Drafts | |
| Style Manuals and Author's Guides | |
| Preliminary Draft: The Audit | |
| Preliminary Draft: The Edit | |
| Writing to Be Understood | |
| The First Draft | |
| The First Draft Audit: The Outside Review | |
| The Second and Third Drafts: Polishing the Work | |
| The Second Draft and Beyond: Writing the Polished Work | |
| The Polished Draft Audit: The Referred Review | |
| The Final Tip | |
| Summary References In | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Lawrence A. Machi is a professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership at the University of La Verne, in La Verne, California.
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