Reference no: EM132235838 , Length: word count:2000
Literature Review
Overview:
As being a student of Fire Safety Engineering/Management Programme, you are required to conduct a literature search to identify the "research gap", develop a hypothesis and summarize relevant literatures from various validated sources by:
1. Identifying your area of research interest from Fire Safety engineering/management modules and their content in the curriculum.
2. Carrying out a healthy survey in area of research interest to develop a research title having a valid scope of research.
3. Learning to search, locate, cite, validate and refer the literatures (i.e. journal articles, books, e- books etc.) using library and other resources.
4. Summarising reviewed literatures on the bases of information and understanding of the subject identified as the "research gap"/research title.
Description:
In this assignment, you are expected to write a literature review covering the following:
1. Identify a research topic* that you are interested in and facilities available in the Fire Safety Engineering laboratory (*obtain an approval from your module tutor within one week of the issue date).
2. Identify books/journals/research articles/conference proceedings etc. that matches/addresses your probable research title and search for more similar articles.
3. Select approximately 25 literatures as reference among which:
a. Five should be text book references
b. Fifteen should be peer reviewed journal articles
c. Three should be authentic internet sources OR
Two should be articles from conference proceedings
d. Three should be official publications, such as, a British/European/International standard, NFPA, ministerial / government reports etc.
4. Peruse the resources and provide a summary of each resource considering your proposed research topic.
5. Prepare a reference section of the report validating with the citations and provide each reference as per the guidelines.
Guidelines for the Report:
o Each student is expected to undertake all the activities related to the course-work independently and may have individual class presentation sessions for thoughts exchange.
o Based on the data collected, you must prepare the course work consisting approximately 2000 words.
o The "literature review" course-work is divided into the following FOUR sections:
A. Proposed research title
B. Introduction of the research topic with rationale (approximately 200 words)
C. Literature summary (approximately 1800 words)
D. References
Formatting Guidelines:
o Page setup
Use A4 paper size settings and use 2.5 cm top, bottom, left and right margin. Use Microsoft Word to prepare the course work.
o The section headings
Title cases: Arial, font size 14, bold, left aligned.
o Body text and sub-headings
Sub-headings: Arial, font size 12, bold, single-spaced.
Body text: Arial, font size 12, single-spaced. Text must be ‘justified' aligned. Leave one blank line between paragraphs.
The pages should be numbered consecutively, without the title page and any type of border.
o Referencing
Referencing is a system that allows you to acknowledge the contributions of others in your writing and it emphasises the authenticity of the source of your information. Whenever you use ANY words, ideas or information from ANY source in your assignments, you must reference those sources. This means, if you quote the exact words of an author, if you paraphrase or reconstruct their words or if you summarise their ideas, you must provide a reference.
Note: In-text citation is required; giving a bibliography/list of references at the end of work without citation in-text is not considered as correct method of referencing and mark will be deducted accordingly.
Follow Harvard system of referencing throughout your text.