Support your studies and enhance your researching skills with these useful suggestions for further reading and other material. Please also visit the SAGE Study Skills website for videos, quizzes and tips to help with your essay and dissertation writing, presentations, literature reviews and more.

Here you will find a bank of SAGE books that are full of ideas to help you study and start your own research more effectively and efficiently.

Academic/research skills

Hopkins, D. and Reid, T. (2018) The Academic Skills Handbook.

Jesson, J. K. (2011) Doing Your Literature Review: Traditional and Systematic Techniques. 

O’Leary, Z. (2018) Research Question: A Little Quick Fix. 

O’Leary, Z. (2018) Research Proposal: A Little Quick Fix. 

Ridley, D. (2012) The Literature Review: A Step-by-step Guide for Students, 2nd edition.

Wellington, J. (ed) (2010) Study Skills: The Essential Guide for Students.