Doing Your Literature Review
Traditional and Systematic Techniques
- Jill Jesson - Aston University, UK
- Lydia Matheson - Aston University, UK
- Fiona M Lacey - Aston University, UK
Contents include:
- using libraries and the internet
- note making
- presentation
- critical analysis
- referencing, plagiarism and copyright.
This book will be relevant to students from any discipline. It includes contributions from two lecturers who have many years experience of teaching research methods and the supervision of postgraduate research dissertations and a librarian, each offering expert advice on either the creation and assessment of literature reviews or the process of searching for information. The book also highlights the increasing importance for many disciplines of the systematic review methodology and discusses some of the specific challenges which it brings.
Jill K. Jesson has worked with multi-disciplinary research teams within the Aston School of Pharmacy, Aston Business School and with M-E-L Research, an independent public services research consultancy. She has now left Aston University and is working as a Consultant.
Lydia Matheson is an Information Specialist working for Library & Information Services at Aston University.
Fiona M. Lacey is an academic pharmacist, a member of the pharmacy practice teaching group in the School of Pharmacy, and Associate Dean in the School of Life and Health Sciences at Aston.
I liked the book and I have listed it as a recommended reading. Honestly, I did not adopt it because I already have two textbooks for the course and I don't want to financially overload my students.
This is a well written and relatively simple guide to a particular area of a research project - to be recommended to individuals struggling with doing a Literature Review for the first time (eg mature professional students who may not have a first degrea) or to students who obtained a degrea some time before their current studies or who have stuggled with literature reviews in assignment work. It also usefully differentiates systematic literature reviews that are increasingly undertaken as "stand alone" exercises for the purpose of evidence based policy development or campaigning.
Great for students embarking on a dissertation project.
A clear and practical guide that will be extremely useful for both undergraduate and post-graduate students.
An interesting book that lends itself to the more advanced student. It was not tthe most used book as students found the presentation not an easy format to follow hence other more simplistic books were preferred.
For students choosing to write a literature review, this will be the primary recommended reading.
Very useful book to help undergraduate students with a potentially awkward, major component of their dissertation.
This is a very useful text not only for the postgraduate or final year student, but for any student undertaking a literature review. This text not only aids in the writing of the review, but informs the reader of the whole process from locating literature to the final output. I would recommend this text to second year students undertaking a research design module in preparation for their final year dissertation.
This is an extremely useful text for the undergraduate student embarking on their dissertation. In conjunction with subject specific text this is an informative text which broadens students perspectives on the use of literature.
