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

Doing a Literature Review can help. This accessible text offers advice on how to:

{ search out existing knowledge on a topic;

{ analyze arguments and ideas;

{ map ideas, arguments and perspectives;

{ produce a literature review;

{ construct a case for investigating a topic.

Doing a Literature Review is a practical and comprehensive guide to researching, preparing and writing a literature review, an essential component of research projects. It is an essential tool for postgraduate students but also for undergraduate and novice researchers across the social sciences and humanities.

Doing a Literature Review is a set book for The Open University Postgraduate Foundation Module (D820) The Challenge of the Social Sciences.