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)