Preparing Literature Reviews: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

€ Illustrates all the steps in preparing qualitative and quantitative literature reviews.

€ Emphasizes topic selection, locating literature, and avoiding major pitfalls in evaluating and synthesizing literature.

€ Shows how to improve literature reviews through the judicious inclusion of statistical results found in the literature.

€ Provides easy-to-follow advice on how to avoid misrepresenting the results of published research in literature reviews.

€ The numerous examples throughout the text and the nine model literature reviews clarify the process of following the guidelines for writing solid, state-of-the-art literature reviews.

€ Shows students how to blend qualitative and quantitative approaches to preparing literature reviews without being overly mathematical.