The Literature Review Six Steps to Success

"The Literature Review remains one of Corwin's top bestsellers, achieving bestseller status with every edition. This book has been widely adopted by universities in programs even beyond education. Although the fourth edition did not perform as strongly as anticipated, it is still a bestseller, with total units of 5764 midway through its third year. The fifth edition will undoubtedly continue to be used, especially with the timely addition of information around use of Artificial Intelligence in creating the literature review.This book is organized as a road map for researching, arguing, and composing a literature review. Doing a literature review is a complex project for even the most advanced researcher, especially if learning how to compose a literature review has been by trial and error. To become successful at this craft, researchers need many skills. They need a way to narrow the research topic and to focus their literature search, and they need the tools necessary to negotiate the myriad books, periodicals, and reports about their topic. Therefore, the purpose of this book for graduate students/researchers, especially in education and the social sciences, is to gather into one volume many of the strategies, tools, and techniques of the experienced researcher, in order to help the reader build a high-quality literature review"-- Provided by publisher.