Literature Review Simplified: A Practical Guide for Beginners
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Are you struggling to conduct a literature review?
This book is your ultimate guide, offering a step-by-step approach perfect for beginners. The book provides the key to writing high-quality reviews in a short span.
Students and researchers often get lost in the sea of litera
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Literature Review Simplified - Rafiq Muhammad
Literature review simplified
A practical guide for beginners
Literature review simplified
A practical guide for beginners
Rafiq Muhammad, MD, MIHMEP, Ph.D.
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ISBN: 978-91-989007-6-7
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Why I Wrote This Book?
I wrote this book because I believe that conducting literature reviews can be transformed from a dry and intimidating process to a process that is pleasant and easy to understand. Like any other graduate student and early career researcher, I was terrified by the idea of conducting a literature review independently.
I was lost in the enormous information on the internet when I started the literature review process. Graduate students and doctoral researchers are often lost in the enormous information and guidelines while writing a literature review and synthesis for their master theses or Ph.D. dissertations. The literature review guidelines contain detailed information on the literature review process but fail to provide a hands-on approach to conducting a literature review in a short time. My mission with this book is to simplify conducting and reporting the literature review process as much as possible and enable the readers to maintain the scientific robustness simultaneously.
I decided to do a systematic literature review doing my master thesis under the MIHMEP program in SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy. I chose genomics as a topic which seemed very interesting to me and rightly in time to address some of the burning questions in direct-to-consumer genetic testing. I was happy that finally I made my choice and selected the topic. But I had no idea that the coming weeks would haunt me because I had no clue how to start the literature review.
Expecting that Google would answer all my questions and provide me with a simple step-by-step guide to conducting the literature review, I was lost in the enormous information on the internet. The existing guidelines and books on conducting literature reviews are complex and intimidating for graduate students and early-career researchers. These guidelines contain detailed information on the literature review process but fail to provide a hands-on approach to conducting the literature review and writing the report for graduate students and early-career researchers without prior experience.
This book aims to simplify the process of conducting literature reviews by providing a concise, easy-to-understand, and hands-on guide for graduate students and early career researchers to start with a literature review. Unlike the existing guidelines and books on how to write literature reviews, this book provides two examples of literature reviews demonstrating each step involved: selecting research questions to writing the final report.
Unique Features and Structure of This Book
This literature review guide simplifies conducting and writing literature reviews by providing a concise, easy-to-understand, and hands-on guide. The book gives examples from health sciences literature reviews but has been written such that it is useful for writing literature reviews for dissertations and master thesis in any research field. The book enables the readers to conduct and complete the literature review process in 3-4 weeks, depending on the topic. The book provides:
Ten easy steps to conduct a high-quality literature review in 3 - 4 weeks time
Unique structure to facilitate the process of conducting a literature review for newbies
Links to useful resources and tools (mostly free and open-source) that help automate and facilitate the literature review process through modern machine learning algorithms
Links to current standard guidelines to conduct literature reviews
Two literature review examples that demonstrate how to write the review findings
Examples of literature review protocols
FAQs section to answer the most common questions about literature reviews
This book is unique in structure to facilitate the process of conducting a literature review for newbies and provides practical examples of conducting a literature review. Each step in the literature review process builds on the relevant section from the examples provided in this book. This way, the readers learn and practically see how to conduct different steps of the literature review process. Towards the end, the book also provides reports of the same literature review examples to demonstrate how to write the literature review findings. These examples show how to write different sections of literature review reports concisely and robustly.
The book provides links to resources and 15 tools (mostly free and open-source) that automate and facilitate the literature review process. Some of these tools use modern machine learning and active learning algorithms that speed up the process of conducting literature reviews. The resources include online software and tools to automate the literature review process, reference management software, and a description of the commonly used search databases. These online tools and software have proven utility to help