Assignment 5

LITERATURE REVIEW

ACTIVITY 1

Facts Given

• LR is an article of what has been published on a research area
• Appears as a chapter in an academic report
• Not just merely a listing of information available,or set of summaries
• Should describe,summarize,evaluate and clarify the studies reviewed
• Give a theoretical base of research and help to determine the nature of research

Important Point

1) Reasons for writing the literature review

• To provide a contact for the research 
• To justify the research 
• To illustrate how the subject has been studied previously
• To outline gaps in previous research
• To show the researchers understanding of the topic area being studied

2) Important Skills

• Information seeking (the ability to search the literature efficiently and identify a set of relevant article and books)
• Critical assessment (the ability to read and and appraise reading text critically)

3) Step To Write Literature Review

4) Ways of citing information from secondary resources

• Summary writing
• Direct quotation
• Paraphrasing

Reflection

• Sometimes its hard to find the LR relates with project title itself
• Good for further research to go and to make better decision
• Good to be preferred (as references)

ACTIVITY 2

Important issues
Summary Writing

• Main activity is to summarize different studies
• Shortened or condensed piece of writing
• Done by restarting the main points in your own words
• The aim of summary is to be precise-must convey exactly what the author wanted to get across in fewer words

Steps :

  Direct Quotation

• Statement that consist of the exact words of the author, copied directly word for word from a printed source.
• Preferable these situations :

1. When citing important statements of information,opinion or policy
2. When doing interpretations of literary works such as a poem,short novel,play or an essay so that the reader can see the basis of your interpretation.

Paraphrasing 

• Rephrasing the words of an author, putting his/her thoughts in your own words
• Several things to be considered :-

1. They should not be written using the author's original vocabulary
2. They should reflect through understanding of the ideas
3. They should reflect the real meaning of the text
4. They should be written in correct mechanics,usage and grammer

Reflactions

• Good overview (LR) to go,understood; and for more understanding do extra and view other LR elobrations
• BAD : forced to know the skill of LR
• BAD : compelled to read all the articles (to search) even does not relevant to studies

Exercise 5 : Paraphrase exercise 

1. Police Superintendent of Bandar Indera, Ali bin Rejab(2005) claims that attitudes of road user using hand phone for chatted,deal in business and quarrelled can contribute to road accidents even though it is very useful during emergency time. (Technology Magazine pp.66)

2. Adam Haris (2003) founded that numbers of youths and university student that having hand phones has increase in recent years. The convenience of having these cell phone has attracted them to have it. (Permata Magazine pp.12)

ASSIGNMENT 4

INTRODUCTION TO WRITING RESEARCH REPORT


*Note : Purpose of the study explain the reasons why the study was carried out
           : Objective of the study show the expected result or outcomes of the study

EXERCISE 2
The following are different research topics carried out by different researchers. Match each research topic with its purpose and objective.

Research Topics
1- The incorporation of the Literature Component in The Malaysian ESL Syllabus for Secondary Schools.
  
Purpose 

• To recognize the teacher's perception, attitudes and needs in relation to the teaching and learning of   literature

Objective

• To explore the implications that arise from the idea of incorporating the literature component into the secondary school English language syllabus
• To identify the implications for the incorporation and implementation of literature as part of the english language syllabus.
• To provide suggestions and recommendations for the incorporation of literature as part of the english as secondary language syllabus

2- Investigation on Language Learning Strategies Used by Proficient Learners.

Purpose

• To discover the learning strategies utilized by individual proficient learners when learning the second language
• To describe the learning strategies used by proficient Malay and Chinese learners when learning the second language

Objective

• To ascertain the strategies used by proficient language learners when learning the second language
• To determine the command strategies used by proficient learners when learning the second language
• To present ideas on how language learning can be enhanced through effective language learning strategies   

3- The Effectiveness of Group Work in Teaching Report Writing

Purpose

• To examine the effectiveness of group work on the student's ability to produce a project report

Objectives

• To find out how students are able to benefit from working in groups in producing a written project report. 
• To investigate the perception of student from Permata University on the group work technique in coming up with a project report.
• To determine if the student learn to write project report more effectively through group work.

ASSIGNMENT 3

Research Report Write-up ; Main Section


ACTIVITY1 : Intro regards Technical Report Writing

•Preparing and providing the readers with information on the overall background of the study conducted

•Helping the readers to focus on the issue or problem addressed in the study and it relates to previous research conducted in the same field

•Presenting the preview of the whole written report

   … Reflections …  

—Must include all the element in introduction

—This articles helping us more to provide a good report on FYP

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—ACTIVITY 2 : Important issues to be learnt [ARTICLE 1] –Stair Climbing Trolley-

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•Elaboration is needed to project title

•Abstract was contain under introduction

•The sequence does not follow the element in the introduction section of a research report

•No need problem definition; just go through to the problem statement

•Problem statement does not really clear.

•Objective was located under problem statement.

ACT 2 : Important issues to be learnt [ARTICLE 2] –E-learning-

—No title written

—The are no sequences of element in the introduction section of a research report.

All information that should have in introduction was write-up in one paragraph

… Reflections … 

- Project overview (abstract) should not under introduction

- Introduction should summarized overall project report which contain this element : [e-learn

 I) Background of study

 II) Statement of problem

 III) Purpose of study

 IV) Objective of the study

  V) Research question

  VI) Significance of study

  VII) Scope of the study

-  No need to put objective under problem statement