Reference and Information Services: An Introduction
How to Do Your Literature Review
This book will walk you through every step of crafting an excellent literature review. It will show you where to find sources, how to assess their quality, and how to combine and integrate these sources into the best possible literature review. From scoping the field to searching the literature to synthesising your findings, this book hits all the spots.
Presenting a clear and detailed roadmap to ensure you don’t miss a step, the book includes:
– Advice on the best ways to scan and search the literature.
– All the latest information and advice on using AI tools for searching literature.
– Case studies and real-life examples from a range of disciplines so you can learn from other researchers who have been in your shoes.
– DIY activities so you can practice your skills and get to grips with key concepts.
– Guidance on how to analyse and synthesise the findings from your literature searches.
– Advice and guidance on organising your writing.
For tutors, each chapter is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation that will map onto a 10 or 11 week module.
Written in Gary’s signature easy-to-read style, this book is an essential companion for anyone conducting a literature review in the applied social sciences.
How to Do Your Literature Review
This book will walk you through every step of crafting an excellent literature review. It will show you where to find sources, how to assess their quality, and how to combine and integrate these sources into the best possible literature review. From scoping the field to searching the literature to synthesising your findings, this book hits all the spots.
Presenting a clear and detailed roadmap to ensure you don’t miss a step, the book includes:
– Advice on the best ways to scan and search the literature.
– All the latest information and advice on using AI tools for searching literature.
– Case studies and real-life examples from a range of disciplines so you can learn from other researchers who have been in your shoes.
– DIY activities so you can practice your skills and get to grips with key concepts.
– Guidance on how to analyse and synthesise the findings from your literature searches.
– Advice and guidance on organising your writing.
For tutors, each chapter is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation that will map onto a 10 or 11 week module.
Written in Gary’s signature easy-to-read style, this book is an essential companion for anyone conducting a literature review in the applied social sciences.
Research for Designers
Design is everywhere: it influences how we live, what we wear, how we communicate, what we buy, and how we behave. In order for designers to design for the real world and define strategies, rather than just implement them, they need to learn how to understand and solve complex, intricate, and often unexpected problems. Research for Designers is a guide to this new, evidence-based creative process. Gjoko Muratovski is a university executive, award winning designer, and innovation consultant working with leading organizations, Fortune 500 companies, and governments from around the world. He holds a PhD in Design Research and is also a Fellow of the Design Research Society.
Taking a step-by-step approach through the basics of research, and highlighting the importance of data, the third edition of Research for Designers includes:
– A new chapter on discourse and narrative methods
– New coverage of coding and thematic analysis
– An augmented section on research ethics, with a decolonising research approach
– Even more real-world cases
– New suggested further reading and exercises at the end of each chapter.
Incorporating interviews with design experts from across the globe, Research for Designers is an essential guide for anyone doing research in Design Studies or looking to develop their design research skills.