Third class (reflection)

In our class today, we've learnt about Literature Review. Shauqi has presented the topic very well. With some addition and discussion with Dr. Teoh, we have started to have clearer views upon this topic. 

What is Literature Review??

• reviewing the sources of written materials of the last study done before to gather information
• review related studies to determine the extent of the research problem
• describe past and current information and research

By having LR you can 

• create a justification on the important of the research you conducted and why it should be conducted
• expand the knowledge and the finding from other related research
• you can describe the problem which you focus in the research 
• you can compare the finding from past research and can made argumentation on that as well as provided recommendations

Basically theses are the steps in conducting Literature Review

1. find the focus of research
• define the research question and key terms for the research
• write the research statement / problem statement
2. find the sources of the research
• search for the past research related to our research
• articles
• journals
• thesis
• dissertation
3. read and evaluate
• read the sources found
• take all related finding from the sources 
• gather all information related to our research
4. organized
• write the LR

..and these are what we need to take into consideration

•  LR is not a summary of articles or journal but combination of information gather from various sources which related to the research conducted. 
• In conducting LR, for me the most important thing is to read and understand what we are reading. By understand what we read, we can evaluate the information and make connection with each other and we can organized is well according to the format.
• To derived the best LR only reading and reading and reading with sense and know how to evaluate the information.