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Engineering Research Practice Assignment

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Added on  2019-10-09

Engineering Research Practice Assignment

   Added on 2019-10-09

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Engineering Research PracticeAssignment 2Assignment 2 is worth 25% and should be 1000 words long (+/- 100), (without references or my questions). This assignment has two main sections. The first section is a literature review and the second section identifies if your research is quantitative or qualitative. The details are given in the following. Please write your research topic from assignment 1 or updated topic in the beginning. Students usually ask me how long each section should be. I suggest that Section 1 to be approximately 800 words and second section to be about 200 words. But there is no specific guideline.1. Literature review exerciseIn the first part of the assignment you will briefly review some scientific literature that relates to the research question you identified in your first assignment. Your goal in reviewing the literature about your topic is to answer the question – “What is known about my chosen research problem?” 1.1.Some important tips1.As mentioned before, please provide your research question or updated research question (If your research question is different to that of the first assignment.) at the beginning of the second assignment. This is very important. Please do not forget! 2.Start early! Even writing a brief literature review section takes time!3.Understand your topic: Before you start reviewing the literature, it is importantfor you to have a clear idea about the problem that you are trying to solve. 4.You don’t need to use figures in your literature review. But if you want, you can. If you do, please make sure to use a caption and refer to each figure in the text. 5.Please do not copy paste from the papers or books! Rephrase or reword yoursentences. 6.Don’t just report what other people have done! Also try to evaluate, organise and synthesise. 7.Begin your discussion from a general perspective (but not too general!). 8.As you proceed, deal with more specific but important studies.9.Don’t forget to insert in-text citations.10.Because this is a short literature review (compared to a thesis for example), you do not need to have an advance organiser (preview of the topic that you 1 | Page
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