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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; 1st edition (6 Nov 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0761959750
  • ISBN-13: 978-0761959755
  • Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 19.2 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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`This book can provide an excellent framework for bolstering what is often an experiential process - doing a literature review. It is best seen alongside the supervisor, as a guide, through the multidimensional sea of academic literature' - British Educational Research Journal

`I have been waiting for this book for five years. It sets out a number of important dimensions involved in the process of literature review and by clear signposting, diagrams, and examples will help the student to carry out her or his review more systematically. Learning how to carry out a literature review has always entailed the experiential. While this is a the best way of learning, it is only so providing that learning actually takes place during the experience (or by reflection afterwards). This book makes explicit those dimensions which could remain implicit or even missed by the student as they wade through all those books, papers, articles, and print-outs' - Kevin Maguire, Nottingham Trent University

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'This book can provide an excellent framework for bolstering what is often an experiential process - doing a literature review. It is best seen alongside the supervisor, as a guide, through the multidimensional sea of academic literature' - British Educational Research Journal 'I have been waiting for this book for five years. It sets out a number of important dimensions involved in the process of literature review and by clear signposting, diagrams, and examples will help the student to carry out her or his review more systematically. Learning how to carry out a literature review has always entailed the experiential. While this is a the best way of learning, it is only so providing that learning actually takes place during the experience (or by reflection afterwards). This book makes explicit those dimensions which could remain implicit or even missed by the student as they wade through all those books, papers, articles, and print-outs' - Kevin Maguire, Nottingham Trent University --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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66 of 68 people found the following review helpful
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Chris Hart's guide to doing a literature review presents a comprehensive perspective on the literature review as a research tool. While it is addressed to scholars in the social sciences, this book is useful in most areas of design research. Hart discusses the role of literature in research. He explains how reviewing earlier work releases the imagination rather than constraining it. He shows how to classify and read research literature, how to analyze arguments, and how to organize and express ideas. He also teaches the reader useful ways to map and analyze the ideas that each body of literature reveals. Finally, he demonstrates in careful, clear stages how to develop and write the literature review. At each point, Hart develops a serious, well-reasoned explanation that helps the scholar to understand why each step is important and how to do it well.

Ken Friedman
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Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, and Denmark's Design School, Copenhagen

This review originally appeared in Design Research News, Volume 6, Number 5, May 2001 ISSN 1473-3862.
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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful
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The book covers the typical issues in conducting a literature review in the social sciences. It covers the role of the lit review. How to review. Classifying and reading research. Analysing arguments. Organising ideas. Mapping and expressing ideas. The later sections bring to light the real purpose of the review: not to read everything written on x but to put the reasons for your study within the context of the past research in a topic and explore the ideas that have underlain progress in a topic. Excellent
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I've searched around and bought a few books on how to do a thesis or literature reviews for my own thesis needs. An excellent book. Clearly written. It gave me exactly what I needed to understand how to construct a thesis or dissertation, what makes an average, good or excellent one. Stick with this book and you won't go far wrong.
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Am Phd Student, please dont buy as the cover quality is very very very very very very poor poor. Why was a good book made with such cheap cover... Read more
Published 9 months ago by billy
Wonderful literature review book for the researcher
This book is so skilfully written. One glides through it at ease.
The tables and figures complement the text so well.
Along with Prof. Read more
Published 20 months ago by James MacLellan
Christopher Hart synthesises the subject so well
Any of his books are worth reading, he has a way of deconstructing the subject to make it accessible and understandable. Recommend any of his books (I have three).
Published 22 months ago by Fleur Morris-brown
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This book is fantastic and most captivating. It answers all questions on how to produce a comprehensive and high standard literature review across disciplinary and... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2010 by Farah Asif
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Very helpful book but quite heavy, very informative and loads of examples and ideas that help you along the way, definately worth investing in but be prepared as it is very heavy... Read more
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Published on 4 Aug 2007 by Anonymous
A brilliant book on writing a research project literature review!
I used Chris Hart's book as a postgraduate student and I was more than satisfied to say the least. After reading the book I was able to advise my classmates as to how to write a... Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2007 by K. Maroukian
Excellent!
A brilliant book written in such a wonderful, transparent and
understandable style. A real gem that is best in its class. Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2003 by Tigran Haas
If you are starting a reseach, then you need this book.
If you are lost or intimidated by the idea of taking up a research, then this book sheds lights on how it can be done?, what a research process is all about? Read more
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