This module has been prepared by Sir Zakir. The second Module covers on writing Literature Review that is compulsory in Chapter 2 of the report.
Literature Review is basically a study or review of different literature with control and systematic manner. Other words, reading of the work of others based on the title and scope of your project. Writing literature review actually helps researchers to do better in their project or future development.
There are steps given in the video. That are:
- define the idea in "GENERAL"
- search through different kind of sources.
- primary: journal/ conference/ scholarly books.
- secondary: book on specific subject (physics fund.)
- general; daily newspaper/magazines.
- others: notes on Internet/ lecture notes/ YouTube etc. - organize your notes.
- write the proposal.
What is the purposes of writing Literature Review??
- to limit the problem area
- to define the problem
- to avoid necessary repetition
- to search for new approaches
- to recommend suitable method
- to sample current opinions/ recent trend.
The lecturer also guide the students on how to carry out a Literature Review affectively.
First, is the keywords. For example, the title of my project is Development of Liquid Concentration Sensor using Optical Loop Fiber for Medical Industry.
From the keywords, check whether it is a valid term or not.
Second, is to do consultation. Consult with librarian for information about collection and cataloging procedures. Or discuss the research problem with the specialists (Supervisor/colleague) for understanding the topic clearly and find reading sources.
Third, is to have preliminary sources. Use the keyword underlined for references.
Fourth, is to have secondary sources. It can be from textbooks, articles or Internet sources.
Fifth, to find contacts if necessary. If there is a need to write to organizations/institutions on Internet in research problem or contact people from the survey of the study conducted.
In order to conduct a study or developing something. it is important for researchers to do selecting and defining a research problem. Why is that so? Because selecting a problem is the central element in any research. So, have one or identity to make observations and collect data becomes easier. From the data collected, we need to have expected result in solving the problem.
Based on the Rubrics, the weightage for Literature Review is 1.8. To score this part, The Literature Review must be relevant and complete investigation into existing systems/ techniques/ technology and a comparison between the articles are provided.
Here is the extras;
- minimum 10-20 references or more
- most recent published paper (5 years back)
- table of comparison
NEXT part of the module is the guidance on how to search and cite the literatures. Mendeley (need to be installed), Google Scholar and Scopus are the common platform used to find desire articles.
Mendeley Desktop - used to create citation. The steps can get it from YouTube.
Fast way to find exact paper for the project, always read their abstract and then their introduction. So it will not be a waste of time instead of read the whole article.
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