LITERATURE REVIEW

Determine whether the literature review:

1. is relevant to the research issues
2. is comprehensive and takes into consideration past and current literature
3. is well reviewed, summarized , organized and consistent with the sequence of the research issues addressed in the study
4. is proportionate relative to the rest of the thesis /writing
5. contains too much text book materials (it should be kept to a minimum)

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Penulisan makalah jurnal = writing journal articles

Extraction from the "Journal writing" workshop.
...the writing should be correct, concise, consistence and clear!

The structure of 'Original report' --> research, technical note, empirical work.

• Title 
• Normally less than 12 words
• Short & sharp phrase reflecting the content of the paper
• Abstract
• 100 - 200 words
• briefly present the topic with 1-2 lines of:
• Introductory statement
• Objectives
• Methodology 
• Major results/findings
• Conclusions
• No need any citation
• Keywords
• usually 3-8 words for reference purposes to enable searches in database
• avoid abbreviations
• Introduction
• Normally 1 - 1.5 page
• Provide clear statement of the problem
• the relevant literature on the subject
• the proposed approach or solution
• this introductory text should be understandable to others from a broad range of scientific disciplines
• at least 20 reference (min 15) cited with most current literature of 1-3 years back
• may include research QUESTION/PROBLEM STATEMENT and justification of study
• OBJECTIVE must appear in the last paragraph
• Material and method
• no limited page nos.
• should be complete enough as it can be reproduced
• previous published procedure should be cited, any modification of published procedures should be mentioned
• described the measure used
• Results/Finding and discussion
• clarity and precise
• written in past tense
• explain and discuss the results 
• better illustrated with charts/graphics/tables
• all illustration must be referred to as close as possible in text 
• result should be explained, if possible without referring to the literature
• result may be compared and discussed with previous literature
• Conclusion (s)
• must fulfill the study objectives
• include the advantage of the study (a unique about it)
• include study practical implication that goes beyond the scope
• include recommendations for future works
• should not be more than 1/3 of a page (1 para should be good enough)
• Acknowledgements
• thank to whoever help you in your current study
• References
• ensure that every ref cited in the text is also present in the ref list
• unpublished results and personnel communication should not be in the ref list but should be mentioned in the text.