session 5: reflection and activities

Activity 1; What is literature Review? What are the important points you have learnt?

~Fact given in article~

1. it is an account of what has been on a research area
2. it evaluates the report of the information found in the literature related to one's particular area of study.
3. it appears as a chapter in an academic report and also, certain references to the literature can be found in various places such as introduction and other parts of the report.

Reflections; Is the a difficult chapter to learn? What do you think an d how do you feel about it?

1. it is not just a listing of information available
2. it should describe, summarize, evaluate the studies reviewed.
3. it should give theoretical base of the research
4. it should help ascertain the nature/scope of the research

Activity 2: What are the important issues that need to be learnt?

1. the citation must be in standard format (book title, journal, publisher and year)
2. the literatures takern must be the ones written withe last five years, so as to be up to date with recent findings in that area of study.
3. there are three ways in writing literature review (summarizing, paraphrasing and original quotation)

Reflections; What is good and bad about learning all these issues? Does it help you in understanding the subject matter better?

Good learning	Bad (not learning)
1. Provide a context for the research 2. Justifies the research 3. Will illustrate how the subject has been studied previously 4. Outlines gaps in previous researches 5. Shows the researchers understanding of the topic being studied.	1. When there is no provided context 2. When the research is not justified 3. When there is no illustration of how the subject has beein studied previoulsy 4. When there is no understanding of the topic been studied

Activity 3; Strategies/resources that could help solve the issues.

1. good bibliography
2. maintain a list of reference
3. organize reading materials and make notes
4. write individual sections according to themes
5. integrate all the sections

Reflections on the activities/lesson

~What have you gained and observed from the lesson ?~

1. the great challange of literature review is to integrate the various readings that relate to the objectives of the research.
2. there are 3 major ways of citing information from secondary sources to support the research

• summarizing
• direct quotation
• paraphrasing

EXERCISE 5;

paraphrasing;

even though Ali Rejab, a police officer in Bandar Indera Putra argues that a hand phone can be of great importance when in danger, people get to use it at the wrong time which normally leads to traffic accidents. (taken from Technology Magazine March 2005)

paraphrasing2;

it has become more of a trend to hold a mobile phone, most especially amongst young stars, statistics have shown that the number in on steady increase. (taken from Permata Magazine 2003)