This text is appropriate for anyone who has taken an introductory research methods course and it includes updated coverage of report writing, validity issues, s

A considerable number of journal publications using a range of qualitative synthesis approaches has been published. Mary Dixon-Woods and colleagues (Mary Dixon-

This volume presents the first collection of work on research synthesis in applied linguistics. It introduces readers­ ­to a cutting-edge approach for reviewi

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Research synthesis is the practice of systematically distilling and integrating data from many studies in order to draw more reliable conclusions about a given