Sage study skills are essential study guides for students of all levels from how to write great essays and succeeding at university to writing your undergraduate dissertation and doing postgraduate research sage study skills help you get the best from your time at university visit the sage study skills hub for tips resources and videos on study success. Doing a literature review releasing the social science research imagination open university set book published in association with the open university sage study skills series author chris hart edition illustrated reprint publisher sage publications 1998 isbn 0761959750 9780761959755 length 230 pages subjects. Doing a literature review releasing the social science research imagination open university set book published in association with the open university sage study skills series author chris hart contributor open university edition illustrated reprint publisher sage 1998 isbn 0761959750 9780761959755 length 230 pages subjects. The literature review is no longer a brief preliminary to the real business of doing social research there is no topic which has not been studied previously in some form and by some means research synthesis and secondary analysis have moved to the core of social inquiry harts text provides clear and authoritative guidance on how to anchor a study. Doing a literature review contains examples of how to cite references structure a research proposal and present a masters thesis it is published as a set book for the open university postgraduate foundation module d820 the challenge of the social sciences i have been waiting for this book for five years it sets out a number of important dimensions involved in the process of