Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Published in association with The Open University)

Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Published in association with The Open University)Rating: Rated 4.0 stars (8 reviews)
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
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Book Description
Doing a Literature Review offers students from across the social sciences and humanities a practical and comprehensive guide to writing a literature review. It takes the reader through the initial states of an undergraduate dissertation or postgraduate thesis.

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5 Comments

  1. A Reviewer
    Posted July 9, 2005 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Published in association with The Open University) has been rated 4 starsGreat resource!

    Great, current resource for writing a lit review. Especially appreciated the specific information about how to analyze and synthesize information.

  2. A Reviewer
    Posted July 18, 2005 at 4:21 am | Permalink

    Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Published in association with The Open University) has been rated 5 starsso good my advisor is going to use it

    This book is great. It has all you need to complete a research paper at any level. I used it for my bachelor’s project which, according to my advisor, is equivalent to a Master’s thesis in content requirement. My advisor has asked me to lend him the book so he can use it to revise the current research manual supplied by the college. This book is easy to read and has a lot of useful tables and charts.

  3. A Reviewer
    Posted August 9, 2005 at 8:55 pm | Permalink

    Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Published in association with The Open University) has been rated 4 starsGreat Resource for the Dissertation

    I found this book to be a great resource as I am doing research for my dissertation. It has helped me to look at the lit review in a new light and has given me several ideas of others avenues to search.

  4. A Reviewer
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

    Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Published in association with The Open University) has been rated 2 starsToo little for the price

    Foudn the text minimally helpful. Not full of insight but just common sense.

    Cost is too high for the return.

  5. A Reviewer
    Posted May 1, 2007 at 10:59 pm | Permalink

    Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Published in association with The Open University) has been rated 3 starsA good guide on how to analyze ideas and synthesize new ones

    Hart’s material will benefit anyone who needs to develop and demonstrate their expertise on a topic. He describes how the review contributes to the defense of a research topic and its findings, at the master’s and doctoral levels. He presents examples of what thesis and dissertation boards look for in research proposals and papers.

    The book describes techniques to extract clues about theories and methods a researcher used. Hart provides excellent guidance on how to analyze the literature on a topic, develop a map of ideas, and synthesize a new contribution.

    Anyone who wants to develop their skills as a researcher, or student, should definitely purchase this book. I also shared many of this book’s insights with my friends, who are not researchers.

    Although I strongly recommend the book, I only rate it 3 stars. The book is unorganized, and the writing is poor.

    In an example from Chapter 4, Hart presents a table of 19 common fallacies. The first column presents the type of fallacy (in no logical or methodical order). He titles the second column “What it is and how to avoid it” but only the first entry presents any “how to avoid it” data. The remaining 18 entries have no advice on avoidance.

    I also felt some diagrams present no useful information; and his prose rambles and repeats itself. In short, Hart gives us dynamite information, but it is frustrating to sort through its sloppy presentation.