Literature Review Assignment
A literature review is an account of what has been published on a topic (in journal articles,
conference proceedings, books and other relevant sources) by recognised researchers.
Understanding the prior research on the topic if interest is the basis of most new research.
Researchers must know what has been studied, discussed and recommended by others
in related areas.
This assignment is intended to:
Provide you with practise finding peer reviewed, recent articles about one topic
Allow you to organise your ideas about that topic in a meaningful way (including both
synthesis and critical analysis).
In this assignment you will review the published literature on the topics and write a
literature review that synthesizes what you have found into a summary of what is, and
is not, known on the topic.
You should use the topic as a starting point and choose a focussed subset of the topic.
For example, if you choose user security behaviour as your broad area, you could focus
on a particular type of threat such as phishing, or you could focus on organisational
security behaviour.
Topic will be covering:
The effectiveness of e-learning - Education is increasingly supported by ICT, with the
term e-learning being used as a general term to refer to many forms of technology
supported learning. Much of the e-learning research has had a technology focus (e.g.
descriptions of implementations) or has been limited to studies of adoption (i.e. will people
use it?), but there has been less research on the impact of e-learning on outcomes for
students.
To do:
To successfully complete the assignment, you must begin searching for relevant literature
immediately.
Find at least 10 articles related to your chosen topic. To qualify as a source of information
that you can use for the assignment, these main articles must report results of research
studies (i.e. not just authors’ opinions). Each article must also:
Have been published in a refereed journal or conference proceedings (though you
may obtain the article through an online source)
Have an extensive references section.
In addition, you may choose to supplement these articles with a few articles from other sources
or that do not present the authors’ own results.
After reading each article, you should think about how they all fit together. Your review should
be organised by concepts, such as findings, rather than by sources of information. Do not
proceed through the articles one-by-one. Your literature review should include an introduction,
a main body that reviews the literature (and which you should subdivide further), and a
conclusion.
Format guidelines
Give your literature review a title that clearly reflects the content of your review.
Include an Introduction section that states the purpose of the review and a Conclusion
section. Include other sub-sections to help str.
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Literature Review Assignment A literature review is an a.docx
1. Literature Review Assignment
A literature review is an account of what has been published on
a topic (in journal articles,
conference proceedings, books and other relevant sources) by
recognised researchers.
Understanding the prior research on the topic if interest is the
basis of most new research.
Researchers must know what has been studied, discussed and
recommended by others
in related areas.
This assignment is intended to:
actise finding peer reviewed, recent
articles about one topic
meaningful way (including both
synthesis and critical analysis).
In this assignment you will review the published literature on
the topics and write a
2. literature review that synthesizes what you have found into a
summary of what is, and
is not, known on the topic.
You should use the topic as a starting point and choose a
focussed subset of the topic.
For example, if you choose user security behaviour as your
broad area, you could focus
on a particular type of threat such as phishing, or you could
focus on organisational
security behaviour.
Topic will be covering:
-learning - Education is increasingly
supported by ICT, with the
term e-learning being used as a general term to refer to many
forms of technology
supported learning. Much of the e-learning research has had a
technology focus (e.g.
descriptions of implementations) or has been limited to studies
of adoption (i.e. will people
use it?), but there has been less research on the impact of e-
learning on outcomes for
students.
3. To do:
To successfully complete the assignment, you must begin
searching for relevant literature
immediately.
Find at least 10 articles related to your chosen topic. To qualify
as a source of information
that you can use for the assignment, these main articles must
report results of research
studies (i.e. not just authors’ opinions). Each article must also:
proceedings (though you
may obtain the article through an online source)
In addition, you may choose to supplement these articles with a
few articles from other sources
or that do not present the authors’ own results.
4. After reading each article, you should think about how they all
fit together. Your review should
be organised by concepts, such as findings, rather than by
sources of information. Do not
proceed through the articles one-by-one. Your literature review
should include an introduction,
a main body that reviews the literature (and which you should
subdivide further), and a
conclusion.
Format guidelines
our literature review a title that clearly reflects the
content of your review.
review and a Conclusion
section. Include other sub-sections to help structure your work.
ional looking font and a font size of 11 or 12
point.
- 1500 words in
length.
of references at the end.
Referencing should be in either APA or IEEE style
6. literature.
organisation/grouping of the literature need to be
effective
with the main points clearly related to the purpose of the review
opinions)
Use of Sources
conference papers) used?
-text’ referencing and reference
list)
must be correctly referenced
