Dear Max,
Try Chris Hart's book, Doing a Literature Review.
Here is a review of the book, published in Design
Research News, Vol. 6, No. 5, May 2001.
Best regards,
Ken
* Hart, Chris. 1998. Doing a literature review. Releasing the social
science imagination. London: Sage Publications.
Chris Hart's guide to doing a literature review presents a
comprehensive perspective on the literature review as a research
tool. While it is addressed to scholars in the social sciences, this
book is useful in most areas of design research. Hart discusses the
role of literature in research. He explains how reviewing earlier
work releases the imagination rather than constraining it. He shows
how to classify and read research literature, how to analyze
arguments, and how to organize and express ideas. He also teaches the
reader useful ways to map and analyze the ideas that each body of
literature reveals. Finally, he demonstrates in careful, clear stages
how to develop and write the literature review. At each point, Hart
develops a serious, well-reasoned explanation that helps the scholar
to understand why each step is important and how to do it well.
--
Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Leadership and Organization
Norwegian School of Management
Visiting Professor
Advanced Research Institute
School of Art and Design
Staffordshire University
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