Seven Steps to a Comprehensive Literature Review
A Multimodal and Cultural Approach
- Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
- Rebecca Frels - Lamar University, USA
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.
I trialled this excellent guide with final year undergraduate dissertation students. They appreciated its clarity and structure. So I will be using it with doctoral students.
Students find literature reviews challenging. I found this work helped a group of dissertation students work through the development of their reviews.
This is, as the title indicates, a comprehensive and detailed textbook on the why, wherefore and how to approach and conduct a literature review. This is a rewarding and informative read. The authors have set the book up in stages with well defined different types of review together with a rationale and purpose for each. Throughout there is guidance and examples. A great strength of the book is the focus on cultural aspects of literature and this is a welcome appeal to a global audience. This is an excellent companion guide for postgraduate students and will also offer some sound advice to more experienced researcher.
I love this book. It is clear, concise and really useful for my postgraduate students many are practising teachers and find engagement with literature problematic. This book has been a great help. It is a joy!
An easy to follow instructional guide which leads researchers through the process of carrying out literature review. It also provides a checklist allowing self evaluation
a comprehensive overview of the literature review, commonly perceived as something to fear by students. clearly outlines key features, gives examples and tools, uses different styles to maintain the reader's interest
This is a useful textbook. The 7 steps breakdown is a helpful way of breaking the task into manageable pieces that students can digest. It is both theoretical and comprehensiveve
The book provides a comprehensive view to relevant steps my students can choose to perform a systematic literature review.
The best book on the market in literature reviews--highly helpful even for more experienced students.
Very thorough, accessible and will meet student needs. An excellent resource.
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