LESSON 5

Activity 1 -: What is literature review? What are the important points that have learnt?

Facts : 

1. An account of what has been published on research area.
2. An evaluative report of information   
3. Literature review should describe, summarize, evaluate and clarify the studies review.
4. Appear as a chapter in an academic report.

Important Point :

• To provide a context for the research.
• To justify the research.
• To illustrate how the subject has been studied previously.
• To show the resources understanding of the topic area being studied. 

Reflection : 

• This is not difficult to learn if you know the proper ways of doing the literature review.
• It's much easier & simple. which means by knowing the reason of writing the literature review, how to write the literature review, how to use the secondary data for cite the information.

Activity 2 : What are the important issues that need to be learnt?

Facts :

1. Should be organized into section that present research themes, trend and theories.
2. How to use the secondary data in report.  
3. There are 3 major ways of citing information from secondary data :

         i - summarizing

        ii - direct quotation

       iii - paraphrasing 

Reflection : What is good and bad about learning all these issues? Does it help you in understanding the subject matter better?
  

• The good thing about learning all these issues is we can improve our FYP report.
• The bad thing is when we get the wrong source / wrong literature review will cause us get wrong information.
• All information in this paper help us understand what to do in report.

Activity 3 : Strategies / resources that could help solve the issues

1.  Read more literature review.
2.  Ask advice from professional [ eg.supervisor ]
3.  Learn better way to write the good report.

Reflection : What have you gained and observed from the lesson?

• How to write / do the proper ways of literature review.
• Learn the ways of citing information from secondary sources. 
• know how to organized literature review into sections.
• make sure that all literature review can use in our report.