5 sweetest boyz

5 sweetest boyz

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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. 

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