Synthesizing Research: A Guide for Literature Reviews

by Harris M. Cooper

Book Overview

Lauded by thousands of readers for providing researchers with the first practical approach for doing systematic literature reviews, this popular book has been thoroughly updated and revised to include the latest information on the use of electronic technology and the Internet to conduct literature searches. This new edition of Synthesizing Research includes expanded discussion of retrieving and coding information from research documents to the production...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761913483
• ISBN13: 9780761913481
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Synthesizing Research: A Guide for Literature Reviews

Good text. I'm using it for a class where I'm doing an integrated literature review in prep for my dissertation. It is very systematic in its approach.

Best buy for intro to meta-analysis

Among the various works on doing a synthetic literature review, I found this book to be the most informative for its size. All essential aspects seem to be well-covered. The much larger work co-edited by the same author only adds detailed treatment of statistical issues. The only drawback to the book is that it is written in the extremely dense prose preferred by psychology professors. If the style of psych journals puts you to sleep, you may prefer the similar work by Fink.