UNIVERSITI KUALA LUMPUR KAMPUS KOTA

MALAYSIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Name of Course
Course Code
Lecturer
Semester / Year
Date

RESEARCH METHOD
IDB 30102
ZALIZAH AWANG LONG
JANUARY 2014

Assessment

LITERATURE REPORT

Weightage

Report - 20%

Course Outcome to achieve:

1. Able to express & comment on the identified LR.
2. Applied the hypothesis & decide on testing and design experiment
Assessment Components :
1. Report - MAX of 10 pages (excluding cover page & references list)
- 100 Marks
DUE DATE: 04 APRIL 2014
Literature Review is a coherent essay of a literature review. It will be a
review of the literature directly related to the topic or problem under
study, followed by an explanation of how your research question grows
out of that review that is, showing how you identify your own research
focus in term of gap in previous research. The purpose for doing so
relates to ongoing research to develop that knowledge: the literature
review may resolve a controversy, establish the need for additional
research, and/or define a topic of inquiry.
Questions a literature review will try to answer
1. What do we know about the area of inquiry?
2. What are the relationships between key concepts, factors, variables?
3. What are the current theories?
4. What are the inconsistencies and other shortcoming?
5. What needs further testing because evidence is lacking, inconclusive,
contradictory, limited?
6. What designs or methods are faulty?
7. Why study this question further?
8. What contribution will your work make?
Adapted from: Review of literature. (2006). UW-Madison Writing Centre,
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/ReviewofLiterature.html

Assignment Description:
You are required to complete a literature review based on PROPOSE
PROJECT IDEAS. You are asked to locate at least 5 to 8 articles.
Outline for literature review report:
1. Introduction
Write an introduction paragraph for your review. This paragraph
a. states the topic and inquiry questions for this review
b. tells the reader specific information on how many articles
you reviewed and how you sorted the articles into common
themes based on findings (results).
2. Body
The content of body includes the information based on your reading.
You might consider the point as below to help you to come out with body
of your LR

Summarize What have other scholars said about the question?

What are the key findings and unknowns?
Organize This is often the most difficult (and most important) part
of a literature review. Concentrate on organizing your material
thematically rather than chronologically. What are the major
debates on the topic? Who is arguing with whom? Are there
unnoticed links or similarities among different research areas which
you plan to bring together? Are there other common threads? It is
very easy to underestimate this task!
Criticize identify inadequacies or shortcomings with the existing
research on the subject. If you have identified a gap in the
literature, this is where you describe overlooked evidence or
unanswered questions.

3 Conclusion
This is the last paragraph of your literature review. In this paragraph,
it is important to briefly summarize the main findings from the
articles that you reviewed.
4. References
This is the last pages of your review. It serves as a listing of all.
Please use APA style when completing this list.
Please refer to the grading rubric attach within for your guide on
marking of the proposal.

Content

Grading Rubric: The following chart will be as guidance to grade

literature review report:
Pass
Fail
Acceptable (12 points)
Target (15 points) * 100
Unacceptable (0 point)
* 100
This inquiry question
The inquiry question
The inquiry question
was well established in
was established in the
was not established in
broader context of an
context of an
the context of an
educational topic.
educational topic
educational topic.
(2 pts).
(1.8 pts).
At least 10 articles were
At least 8 articles were
selected and each
A couple of articles
selected and related to
specifically related to
were selected; some
the initial inquiry
the initial inquiry
minimally related to
question
question.
the inquiry question.
(1.8 pts).
(2 pts).
The finding of articles The findings of articles
The findings/results of
were mentioned with
were compared,
articles were
little and or no
contrasted and/or
thoughtfully compared,
comparison or
contrasted and/or
connected to each
connection to each
connected to each other.
other
other.
(2 pts).
(1.8 pts).

icsMechan
ationOrganiz

The conclusion of the

review summarized the
knowledge found from
this review and related
the knowledge gain to
the inquiry question
(2 pts).
The references were
cited using APA style
(2 pts)
The review was
organized using
subheadings. The review
was suitably organized
considering
the contents
There were
no
grammatical, spelling
and/or punctuation
errors and transitional
phrases were used to

The conclusion of the

review summarized the
knowledge found from
this review
(1.8 pts).

The conclusion of the

review did not
summarize the
knowledge found from
this review.

The references were

listed (1.8 pts)

The references were

not listed

The review was

suitably organized
considering the
contents of the
selected
articles
There was
an
occasional
grammatical, spelling
and/or punctuation
error that did not

The review was

minimally organized
and writing was
difficult to follow
throughout.
There
were many
grammatical, spelling
and/or punctuation
errors that distracted
the reader from the