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Emerging researchers need a range of specific skills to plan and successfully complete their research projects. While there are multiple books available on methods, there is much less information on the key skills needed to complete a project.
Designing and Managing Your Research Project provides information about the key areas needed for a successful project. It includes software skills, developing research objectives, writing proposals, literature reviews, getting ethics approval, seeking funding, managing a project, communicating research findings, and writing reports. There is also a chapter on working as an independent researcher.
Designing and Managing Your Research Project includes numerous examples, checklists, and practical exercises designed to assist the learning of research skills and the completion of crucial project tasks. It covers procedures needed for conducting projects electronically and accessing information from the Internet.
This book is designed to complement texts covering quantitative and qualitative research methods in health and social sciences. It will be particularly useful to advanced undergraduate and graduate students planning theses and dissertations and other researchers in the early stages of their career.
Doing a Literature Review
Doing a Literature Review
Topics Covered in This Chapter
- What is a literature review?
- Types of literature review
- Getting to grips with technology
- Preliminary thinking and scoping your review
- Using electronic search engines and databases
- Using key words in electronic searches
- Widening the literature search
- Storing your search results
- Getting hold of publications
- Critically appraising the literature
- Writing and organising your review
This chapter describes the steps involved in preparing a literature review, from initial searching through to final report writing. While the chapter is mainly written for people ...
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