Product Description

This book is intended for anyone wants to research social, health, educational, and business issues. It is ideal for students, researchers, marketers, planners, and policymakers who design and manage public and private agencies, conduct research studies, and prepare strategic plans and grant proposals.

This new edition includes:

- Flow diagrams to assist the reader in linking each step of the review to the contents of each chapter.

- New references and other online resources to help users learn more about literature reviews.

- Links to online literature reviews and meta-analyses.

- Guidance in choosing online public and private bibliographic databases for literature reviews.

- Guidance about searching the web for research information.

The text also discusses the use of Boolean operators for simple and advanced searches, tells readers how to use bibliographic software to organize literature reviews and search 'The Virtual File Cabinet,' and describes how to synthesize the literature as a stand-alone report or as a component of a paper or proposal to justify the need for and significance of research, and/or to explain a study's findings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79203 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author

Arlene Fink (Ph.D.) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles and President of the Langley Research Institute.  Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality.  Dr. Fink has conducted many research studies in medicine, public health and education.  She is on the faculty of UCLA’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and its Health Services Research Center and is on the Advisory Board of the University of Southern California’s Minority Research Center.  She is also a consultant to the American Society for Bioethics, the International Society for Clinical Bioethics, and L’institut de Promotion del la Prévention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) Paris, France.  Professor Fink has lectured extensively in the United States and internationally and is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.