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

2. 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 

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Resource http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/findout/research/litrev.php
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13. homework Try to make progress on your literature review
Subject of your TJTS505: Literature Review + Your full name
Deadline: 6 PM, December 14
Demonstrate your literature review
Oral presentation with slides
Time: December 15