Introduction
PART 1: TYPES OF LITERATURE REVIEWS
1. Stand-Alone Literature Reviews 1: Non-systematic
2. Stand-Alone Literature Reviews 2: Systematic
3. Literature Reviews for Dissertations and Theses
PART 2: SEARCHING YOUR SOURCES
4. How to Generate Your Own Ideas
5. Finding a Research Question
6. How to Search
7. Searching the Internet
PART 3: PROCESSING IDEAS
8. Critically Evaluating Your Sources 1: The Arguments
9. Critically Evaluating Your Sources 2: The Evidence and Language
10. Analysing Concepts 1: Finding Connections between Ideas.
11. Analysing Concepts 2: Adapting Structures of Ideas
12. Synthesis-Creating Patterns and Finding Gaps
PART 4: ORGANISING YOUR WORK
13. Managing Your Time
14. Managing your Material
15. Reading
16. Note-Taking
PART 5: PLANNING YOUR REVIEW
17. Deciding Which Sources to Use
18. Planning the Review
19. Integrating Your Review with Other Chapters
PART 6: WRITING YOUR REVIEW
20. Discussing the Literature
21. The First Draft
22. Finding Your own Voice
23. Style: Simplicity and Economy
24. Finding the Right Words
PART 7: USING YOUR SOURCES
25. Plagiarism
26. Citing Your Sources
PART 8: EDITING
27. Revision 1: Structure
28. Revision 2: Content
Conclusion.
Bryan Greetham was educated at the universities of Kent and Sussex. He holds a PhD in moral philosophy from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is currently engaged in research into moral thinking and the Holocaust, and teaches philosophy at the University of Maryland. He is the author of How to Write Better Essays, How to Write Your Undergraduate Dissertation, Smart Thinking,Thinking Skills for Professionals and Philosophy.