Literature Reviews Made Easy : A Quick Guide to Success

Compared to other books on this subject, this book is the ultimate quick guide to writing literature reviews. This book demystifies the process of critically thinking and writing a literature review. The author, Dr. Paula Dawidowicz has sat on worked with hundreds of students to help them produce quality dissertations. She's taught professional, collegiate, and graduate level writing to hundreds more. She's written literature reviews for professionals and assisted others with their literature review development for grant proposals, case studies, and program evaluations. This book doesn't stop at discussing literature review organization or content. It goes a step farther to provide lists, tables, diagrams, examples, exercises, and classroom activities to assist students in developing the skills that make a literature review successful, whether it's a simple undergraduate literature review, an applied literature review for use in such products as case studies and grant proposals, or a full academic literature review used for a thesis or dissertation. This book is a must have for any novice or even advanced writer who wants to find out not just what to include in a literature review, but also how to include it. It is an irreplaceable for every instructor teaching students how to conceptualize and write a strong literature review.