Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie & Rebecca Frels 
Seven Steps to a Comprehensive Literature Review [EPUB ebook] 
A Multimodal and Cultural Approach

This dynamic guide to doing literature reviews demystifies the process in seven steps to show researchers how to produce a comprehensive literature review. Teaching techniques to bring systematic thoroughness and reflexivity to research, the authors show how to achieve a rich, ethical and reflexive review.

 

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.

Зміст

PART ONE: OVERVIEW

Chapter 1: Foundations of the Literature Review

Chapter 2: The Literature Review

Chapter 3: Methodology of the Literature Review

PART TWO: EXPLORATION

Chapter 4: Step 1: Exploring Beliefs and Topics

Chapter 5: Step 2: Initiating the Search

Chapter 6: Step 3: Storing and Organizing Information

Chapter 7: Step 4: Selecting/Deselecting Information

Chapter 8: Step 5: Expanding the Search: Media, Observation(s), Documents, Experts and Secondary Data

PART THREE: INTEGRATION

Chapter 9: Step 6: Analyzing and Synthesizing Information

PART FOUR: COMMUNICATION

Chapter 10: Step 7: Presenting the CLR Report: Planning Phase

Chapter 11: Step 7: Presenting the CLR Written Report

APPENDICES

Appendix A: Supplemental Tables of Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research Designs

Appendix B: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Legitimation Frameworks