e-Book Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care: A Practical Guide download

by Helen Aveyard

ISBN: 0335238858
ISBN13: 978-0335238859
Language: English
Publisher: Open University Press; 2 edition (May 1, 2010)
Pages: 184
Category: Medicine and Health Sciences
Subategory: Other

"This book is fantastic! It gives a clear, concise guide to carrying out a literature review, which is of course a widely used formative assessment technique in a nursing program ... (it includes) in depth explanations and reasons as to how and why it is important to do a literature review ... the summary section at the end of each chapter is excellent, and allows the reader to review their understanding of what they’re just read. Overall an excellent book which is a must for any student nurse!" Gem Smith, Student Nurse, Northumbria University, UK

"This book is superb. It explains the entire process of writing a literature review very clearly ... extremely helpful as the prospect of reviewing literature can be quite daunting." Vicky Bain, Student Nurse, University of Nottingham, UK

"A comprehensive, easy to read guide which will help students to understand how to undertake a literature review, and how to use the resultant information effectively." Anne-Marie Warnes, University of Central Lancashire, UK

"As a student, currently writing a literature review, I found this an extremely helpful book, which is invaluable in demystifying some of the more challenging elements, while at the same time providing clear, simple, appealing and appropriate guidance. This is a must have for undergraduate nursing students, and indeed all healthcare students embarking on such projects." Audrey Grace, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

This bestselling book is a step-by-step guide to doing a literature review in health and social care. It is vital reading for all those undertaking their undergraduate or postgraduate dissertation or any research module which involves a literature review.

The new edition has been fully updated and provides a practical guide to the different types of literature that you may come across when undertaking a literature review. It includes: Examples of commonly occurring real life scenarios encountered by students Emphasis on the importance of setting a question at the very start of the project Advice on how to follow a clearly defined search strategy Details of a wide range of critical appraisal tools Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care 2/e is essential reading for students at all levels within the health and social care field - and a useful text for anyone new to reviewing and appraising evidence.

Arlelond

This is a good basic book on producing a literature review. Clearly aimed at undergraduates with no previous experience in assessing research reports, it adopts a cookbook approach, which is clearly what its intended readership wants.
It advocates transparency in reporting how the articles to be reviewed were selected, and strongly suggests using one or other of the "tools" available on the web for evaluating individual research reports.
It is on rather firmer ground when describing the assessment of quantitative research than when assessing reports of qualitative research. It advocates becoming familiar with the various forms of qualititative research, which it describes sketchily, without suggesting any differences in the approach one might adopt to them.
Similarly, it covers the treatment of theoretical literature rather sketchily.
Overall: a good book for beginners

Whitebinder

I used the book as a textbook for a graduate course and it provided the basics, but failed to present information to understand the purpose or function of the literature review.

Hirah

Very helpful in explaining a very complicated process! Will need this for all of my doctoral studies and will most likely recommend it as a professor!

WinDImmortaL

The book gives clear, easy to follow guidelines and really helped me to complete my dissertation. It provides a step by step procedure that gave me a lot of confidence in what I was doing by allowing me to focus on content in the knowledge that the structure of my work was ok.

Perdana

Liked and used this reference

Cordabor

Concise, clear and easy to understand tips for amateur and experienced researchers.
A useful guide for any phd student! I love it!

Madis

extremely helpful.

I needed this book for a class, so it obviously isn't something I enjoy reading. But it arrived within the time that it said it would.