The Literature Review in Research and Dissertation Writing (Statistical Associates Blue Book Series 41)

A concise, illustrated introduction to writing the literature review section of scholarly articles and dissertations.

New in the 2013 edition:
Double the pages, double the coverage
Two dozen new illustrations
New sections on bibliographic management software, defining search terms, bibliographic databases, integrated research reviews (IRR), and more.

Unformatted table of contents:
Introduction 5
The literature review: General considerations 5
Select a citation style 7
Consider using bibliographic management software 8
Selecting search terms 9
Finding search terms 9
Selecting by overlapping subsets 13
Bibliographic databases 15
Google Scholar 15
Google Scholar tips 16
Academic Search Complete 18
AskGPO 19
Campbell Systematic Reviews 20
ERIC 21
GoPubMed 22
PsychINFO 23
Web of Knowledge/ Web of Science 24
Snowball searching 27
Documenting the search strategy 30
Overview 30
Example documentation 31
Format of the literature review 32
The introduction 32
The background section 32
The literature search strategy 32
The literature review grouped by hypotheses 33
The literature review sub-grouped by importance 33
The summary/conclusions section 34
Meta-analysis 35
Overview 35
The literature review in medicine 36
The meta-analytic schedule 37
Meta-analytic tables 38
From literature review to published article 40
Summary 42
Appendix A: Checklist for the format of the literature review 43
Appendix B: Checklist for meta-analysis 45
Appendix C: The integrative research review (IRR) 47
Bibliography 49
Pagecount: 52