Literature reviews made easy : a quick guide to success / Paula Dawidowicz.

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1. Introduction : Why develop a literature review? -- 2. The literature review process -- 3. Objective research -- 4. Generalizability and transferability -- 5. Quoting and paraphrasing -- 6. Selecting quality sources for your review -- 7. Brainstorming : examples of factors to consider -- 8. Creating an initial outline for your literature review -- 9. Types of article examination used in a literature review -- 10. What is analysis? -- 11. Creating structure for an analysis -- 12. What is comparison? -- 13. Contrast : the important other side of the coin -- 14. Differentiating between strong and weak comparisons and contrasts -- 15. Evaluation of importance of the literature to a topic of interest -- 16. Maximizing your evaluation -- 17. How does synthesizing ideas create a framework? What does this mean? -- 18. What does a synthesis look like? -- 19. Synthesis and integration : complementing ideas -- 20. Analysis, comparisons, contrast, evaluation, synthesis, and integration -- 21. Organizing your assessment of the literature -- 22. Separating your ideas from authors' ideas -- 23. Peer critiquing -- 24. Reviewing completed publications -- 25. Expanding and revising -- 26. Structuring your work -- 27. Formulating introductions -- 28. Formulating conclusions -- 29. Revisions and editing -- 30. Summary of the writing process -- 31. Review of analysis methods.

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