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• Literature Review Flow Chart
• Preface
• New to This Edition
• Audience
• Special Features and Text Organization
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Introduction: Doing and Producing a Literature Review
• Key Vocabulary
• Introduction Overview
• The Purpose of a Literature Review
• The Literature Review Defined
• The Literature Review Process
• Mindset: Personal Dispositions on Thinking, Doing, and Deciding
• The Ethics of Reviewing the Literature
• Reflective Oversight
• Plan Wisely Before You Begin
• Summary
• Checklist
• Reflective Exercise
• 1. Step 1: Select and Define a Topic
• Key Vocabulary
• Chapter Overview
• Task 1. Identify a Subject for Study
• Task 2. Translate the Personal Interest or Concern Into a Research Query
• Task 3. Link the Research Query to the Appropriate Discipline
• Task 4. Write the Preliminary Research Topic Statement
• Summary
• Checklist
• Reflective Exercise
• 2. Step 2: Develop the Tools of Argumentation
• Key Vocabulary
• Chapter Overview
• Concept 1. Building the Case for a Literature Review
• Concept 2. Arguments—the Basics
• Concept 3. Evaluating the Basic Parts of an Argument
• Concept 4. Understanding Claims
• Concept 5. Building Evidence
• Concept 6. Warrant—Logically Connecting the Evidence to the Claim
• Concept 7. Complex Claims
• Summary
• Checklist
• Reflective Exercise
• 3. Step 3: Search the Literature
• Key Vocabulary
• Chapter Overview
• Task 1. Select the Literature to Review
• Task 2. Conduct a Literature Search
• Task 3. Refine Your Topic
• Summary
• Checklist
• Reflective Exercise
• 4. Step 4: Survey the Literature
• Key Vocabulary
• Chapter Overview
• Task 1. Assemble the Collected Data
• Task 2. Organize the Information
• Task 3. Analyze the Patterns of Data
• Summary
• Checklist
• Reflective Exercise
• 5. Step 5: Critique the Literature
• Key Vocabulary
• Chapter Overview
• What Is a Literature Critique?
• Concept 1. Making the Case for the Literature Review
• Concept 2. Descriptive Argument Patterns: Factual Reasoning
• Concept 3. Implicative Argument Patterns: Implicative Reasoning
• Concept 4. The Implicative Argument: Nine Basic Patterns
• Concept 5. Backing
• Doing a Critique of the Literature: Building the Advocacy Argument
• Task 1. Determining the Implicative Logic Pattern Inferred by the Topic of Study
• Task 2. Reframe Claims to Meet the Prerequisite Conditions Identified by the Selected Logic Type
• Task 3. Build the Advocacy Argument
• Concept 6. Fallacies
• Concept 7. The Case Is Everything
• Summary
• Checklist
• Reflective Exercise
• 6. Step 6: Write the Review
• Key Vocabulary
• The Writing Process: Overview
• Task 1. Write to Understand
• Task 2. Write to Be Understood
• Style Manuals
• Checklist
• Reflective Exercise
• Last Words
• Supplements
• Supplement A The Role of the Literature Review
• Supplement B Literature Review 101
• Supplement C Writing a Journal
• Supplement D SQRRR
• Glossary
• References and Further Reading
• Index