Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review (Michigan Series in English for Academic & Professional Purposes)

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  1. Paperback: 112 pages: 1 item
  2. Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL; 2009-03-26
  3. Author: Christine Feak, John M. Swales
  4. ISBN: 0472033360
  5. Sales Rank in Books: #66696

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Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review is concerned with the writing of a literature review and is not designed to address any of the preliminary processes leading up to the actual writing of the literature review.

 

This volume represents a revision and expansion of the material on writing literature reviews that appeared in English in Today's Research World.

 

This volume progresses from general to specific issues in the writing of literature reviews. It opens with some orientations that raise awareness of the issues that surround the telling of a research story. Issues of structure and matters of language, style, and rhetoric are then discussed. Sections on metadiscourse, citation, and paraphrasing and summarizing are included. 

 

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a must have book, July 25, 2011
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This review is from: Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review (Michigan Series in English for Academic & Professional Purposes) (Paperback)
Exellent book for those grad students in the social sciences, specially for those who fight when writing literature reviews. This book has nice exercised to practice writing literature reviews. Easy to read.it goes to the point when explaining things.


2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars College-level collections will find this a powerful addition!, September 11, 2010
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This review is from: Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review (Michigan Series in English for Academic & Professional Purposes) (Paperback)
TELLING A RESEARCH STORY: WRITING A LITERATURE REVIEW presents Volume 2 of the revised, expanded edition of ENGLISH IN TODAY'S RESEARCH WORLD, and covers the basics of writing a literature review. It's a revision of a work on writing abstracts that appeared in English in Today's Research World and presents a range of issues particular to the writing of literature reviews. College-level collections will find this a powerful addition!


2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Use for class, October 17, 2009
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This review is from: Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review (Michigan Series in English for Academic & Professional Purposes) (Paperback)
This book has useful concepts for a research based writing class. It is a little boring to read, but does provide some guidance in how to formulate research introductions and literature reviews. Each chapter has exercises that are tedious to complete and do not fully help the reader.

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