TJTS505: Master's Thesis Seminar Lecture 6: Literature review Shuaiqiang wang Department of CS-IS, JYU

About this course Q: Could we have less presentations? A: No. The name of this course is "Master's Thesis Seminar”. It is NOT a common lecturing course. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, seminar means: a group of advanced students studying under a professor with each doing original research and all exchanging results through reports and discussions a(1):  a course of study pursued by a seminar (2):  an advanced or graduate course often featuring informality and discussion. b:  a scheduled meeting of a seminar or a room for such meetings a meeting for giving and discussing information 

About this course In my first class I mentioned, the objectives of this course include Support the Master's study Practice writing research plans critical evaluation and analysis written and oral presentations of the study to the public.

About this course So, Presentation and discussion is the most important teaching methodology for the seminar courses. I don’t think you need much time to make your slides. Just copy and paste what you did. Focus on your thesis writing. During the classes, you need to present your concerns and issues if necessary when you present your work.

About literature review Find literature Store and organize literature Reivew Read literature Analyze literature Write review

Find literature Resource: Google scholar The homepages of the leading journals in your research area Importance of the papers Latest papers: journal levels (JUFO system in Finland), authors and affiliations Old papers: citations Your judgement

Literature Organization Name the documents with titles or keywords Make notes on the documents Organize your literatures Mendeley for Windows BibDesk for Mac Multiple levels of folds

Purpose Place your original work (in the case of theses or dissertations) in the context of existing literature Describe the relationship of your work to the others under consideration Present conflicts amongst seemingly contradictory previous studies Identify new ways to interpret, and shed light on any gaps in, previous research Point the way forward for further research

Literature reading According to your purposes, there are several levels to review literatures Level 1: Title, abstract, conclusions, importance (level of publisher, year, #citation, authors) Level 2: Introduction, related work, problem formulation and concept definition, theories and techniques in high level Level 3: Detailed theories and techniques, experimental setting and results, discussion Level 4: Sentence by sentence

Literature analysis and writing Literature reviews should comprise the following elements: An overview of the subject, issue or theory under consideration, along with the objectives of the literature review Division of works under review into categories (e.g. those in support of a particular position, those against, and those offering alternative theses entirely) Explanation of how each work is similar to and how it varies from the others Conclusions as to which pieces are best considered in their argument, are most convincing of their opinions, and make the greatest contribution to the understanding and development of their area of research

LITERATURE REVIEW: structure Introduction: Brief introduction of general concepts and terminology Review and analysis of available literature: Current status of research viewpoints and approaches Identification of research gap Conclusion Conclude the review by focusing on key points and the identified research

Resource http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/findout/research/litrev.php http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/ReviewofLiterature.html http://library.bcu.ac.uk/learner/writingguides/1.04.htm http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/write-a-literature-review http://www.duluth.umn.edu/~hrallis/guides/researching/litreview .html

homework Try to make progress on your literature review Email: gpandey_01@yahoo.com Subject of your email: TJTS505: Literature Review + Your full name Deadline: 6 PM, December 14 Demonstrate your literature review Oral presentation with slides Time: December 15