Doing a Literature Review

In combining a critical, philosophical approach with an expertly selected body of practical examples, the Second Edition of Chris Hart's landmark text provides both the intellectual understanding and the technical skills required to produce sophisticated, robust literature reviews of the very highest standard.

The research imagination
The purpose of literature reviewing
Classifying and reading research to review
Different types of literature review
Argumentation analysis
Evidence, evaluation and critical realism
Understanding and analysing the ways ideas are organised
Mapping and analysing ideas
Writing the review