Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy: The Matrix Method

by Judith.Garrard (Author)

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  2004

  $3.24

  This resource will help students better understand scientific literature by instilling the essential skills (via the matrix method ) needed to critically evaluate article findings. The fundamental principles of searching, organizing, reviewing, and synthesizing are covered at the most basic level. It will help students to: Conduct an efficient and thorough search of the literature using electronic databases...Learn specific methods for organizing journal articles and other source documents for quick and easy access... Discover how to choose specific topics to systematically abstract the research articles ...Create and use their own abstracts of the research articles to write a synthesis of the literature. Visual examples and a single case study are woven throughout the text. It is constructed in an easy-to-read and highly practical format