INFO 4401 Chapter 2 Literature Review

assalamu alikum today we're going to continue with chapter 2 literature review the chapter 2 literature review is the second chapter of the FP report and it comes after the first chapter the introduction chapter a literature review is a summary and explanation of the complete and current state of knowledge on a limited topic found in academic books and

general articles in this case you need to review existing literatures which are related to your current study let's go through the purpose of literature review literature review is conducted to provide the context of the research in this case a literature review is been conducted to give your reader a context or an overview of what your project is

all about it is also being conducted to justify your research and also to highlight the gap between your proposed project and the existing studies here are the steps to conduct literature review first you need to select the database that you will use to conduct your searches examples of database are Google Scholar i e explore ACM and

Alivia this is an example of the Google Scholar page now you can start reviewing the literature you may first start by understanding the research question being highlighted in that existing study once you have understood the research questions then you may go through the research methodologies and look into how the research has been

conducted you may use the result of the study to support your propose your proposed project or if the result of the study is contradict with your purpose project we will discuss why the contradiction

happens now let's go to the next topic on how to write the literature review a literature review should be written in your own words you can either use quotation or paraphrasing both can be written by embedding the author's name in the sentence or cting the author's name at the end of the sentence quotations are been used