Customer Reviews
Doing your head in: releasing the aggression after trying to read this. - By: Anonymous, 04 Aug 2007 
I decided to buy this book having read all the fantastic reviews on here, but was sorely disappointed. I amin the process of writing a postgrad literature review for my CIPD & have to say, this book was absolutely no help whatsoever. Maybe it works for academics, but for business students, I would avoid this like the plague. If you're after a book that gives you practical hints on how to get started with your literature review, don't buy this. I found the content & writing style to be largely theoretical & abstract, which made it difficult to follow or glean any quick pointers from. Having trawled through the whole sorry dirge I was left none the wiser by the end of the book & found much more useful & practical tips online.
A brilliant book on writing a research project literature review! - By: K. Maroukian, 08 Jan 2007 
I used Chris Hart's book as a postgraduate student & I was more than satisfied to say the least. After reading the book I was able to advise my classmates as to how to write a good literature review.
There are a lot of interesting illustrations which thoroughly explain the process of prior research than needs to be done & then how it's all combined & written up as a document i.e. a literature review.
Moreover, the most important elements that are described within the book are the types of research available to the researcher, the goals of a research, the issues of different types of research, the different ways of argumentation, how to cite references, a checklist of do's & don'ts.
I recommend Hart's book to every postgraduate student bound to a literature review write-up & academicsin general.
Excellent! - By: Tigran Haas, 01 Aug 2003 A brilliant book writtenin such a wonderful, transparent and
understandable style. A real gem that is bestin its class. Excellent reference when judging graduate & post-graduate thesis works. Recommended warmly!
This is an excellent primer and useful for post-docs too - By: Mr. Kevin Francis Mole, 12 Feb 2002 The book covers the typical issuesin conducting a literature reviewin the social sciences. It covers the role of the lit review. How to review. Classifying & reading research. Analysing arguments. Organising ideas. Mapping & expressing ideas. The later sections bring to light the real purpose of the review: not to read everything written on x but to put the reasons for your study within the context of the past researchin a topic & explore the ideas that have underlain progressin a topic. Excellent
Magnificent guide to literature review - By: Ken Friedman, 07 May 2001 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 scholarsin the social sciences, this book is usefulin most areas of design research. Hart discusses the role of literaturein research. He explains how reviewing earlier work releases the imagination rather than constraining it. He shows how to classify & read research literature, how to analyze arguments, & how to organize & express ideas. He also teaches the reader useful ways to map & analyze the ideas that each body of literature reveals. Finally, he demonstratesin careful, clear stages how to develop & 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 & how to do it well.
Ken Friedman
Professor
Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, & Denmark's Design School, Copenhagen
This review originally appearedin Design Research News, Volume 6, Number 5, May 2001 ISSN 1473-3862.
