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Civil Engineering: Research Support

These pages bring together key resources for students of Civil Engineering. It helps students and staff find books, ebooks, articles, journals and more

Systematic Literature Review

Download for FREE the following books on Systematic Review:

A practical guide: Screening for Systematic Reviews
This guide provides a thorough resource for designing and implementing screening processes in systematic reviews.

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What’s inside?
- Importance of screening in systematic reviews
- Screening protocols for your review process
- Team composition and roles in screening
- Tips for preparing references and deduplication
- Strategies for title and abstract screening
- Handling conflicts and ensuring consistency
- Ensuring inter-rater reliability in screening
- Top 10 tips on screening
A practical guide to: Protocol Development for Systematic Reviews
This guide offers a comprehensive resource for crafting systematic review protocols.

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What’s inside?
- Why is it important to write a protocol?
- Registering a protocol
- Review Information (Title, Authors, Background)
- Objectives & Research Questions
- Eligibility Criteria & Search Strategies
- Methods
- Top 5 Tips for Review Protocols

Research methods

SAGE Research Methods

SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools.

Writing Support

Research Guide: Writing support

HWC - Writing your research proposal
A presentation by Dr. Avasha Rambiritch

A Researcher’s Guide to Writing Impactful Introduction and Discussion Sections
The Introduction section sets the stage and positions the work done within the broader academic landscape and the Discussion section interprets the findings, emphasizing their significance.

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