Identify and select relevant literatures for the research proposal

The primary goal of literature review is to know the use of content/ideas/approaches in the literature to correctly identify the problem that is vaguely known beforehand, to advocate a specific approach adopted to understanding the problem, and to access the choice of methods used. It also helps the researcher understand clearly that the research to be undertaken would contribute something new and innovative. The quality of such review can be determined by evaluating if it includes appropriate breadth and depth of the area under study, clarity, rigor, consistency, effective analysis

Literature Review.pdf

LITERATURE REVIEW

A good literature survey is the first expectation of a supervisor from the research student, and when done well can create a good impression that the state of art in the chosen field is well understood.
A good literature review would not draw hasty conclusions and look into the individual references to determine the underlying causes/assumptions/mechanisms in each of them so as to synthesize the available information in a much more meaningful way.
A literature review should be able to summarize as to what is already known from the state of the art, detail the key concepts and the main factors or parameters and the underlying relationships between those, describe any complementary existing approaches, enumerate the inconsistencies or shortcomings in the published work, identify the reported results that are inconclusive or contradictory, and provide a compulsive reason to do further work in the field.

citation management and referencing

Academic writing, by definition, must follow certain rules and conventions. Among the most important of these are the rules and conventions about citing, referencing, attributing, and acknowledging the works of others. That means giving proper credit wherever due. Citing is the practice of quoting from, referring to other authors’ works and ideas in the text of our work in such a way that the context is clear to the reader. Referencing is the listing of the full publication details of a published work that is cited so as to give background information to the readers.

SYNCHRONOUS CLASS

Related Literature.mp4

REFLECTION:

This CLO tackled ways on how to identify and select the appropriate literature for the research proposal. After attending the synchronous class about literature review, I have grasped lots of takeaways in this CLO. First is that literature review typically begin by grounding the researcher in background subject information found in both seconndary and tertiary sources. Second is that the literature review consists of two parts, the process (literature search), and product. For literature research, there should be a careful selection of sources through the use of keywords of the topic of interest. For the product, this pertains to a review of literature, which sets the context of the study, informs the research design and methodology, and indentifying areas for advancing the scholarship in the field of engineering. Lastly, I learned that sources can be classified into three types. It could be a primary source, secondary, or a tertiary source.

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