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GRAD 695 Research Methodology and Writing Assignment - Literature review, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, USA

For this assignment you are asked to complete a literature review on your research topic. The aim of this assignment is to summarize and critically evaluate the literature to establish current knowledge of this topic. It also needs to identify a gap in the literature that will be filled by your research.

Topic - Anomaly Detection using Data Mining.

Your literature review should have a clearly organized structure with an introduction, body and conclusion. Note that your literature review is not a summary of studies in your topic presented one by one, paragraph by paragraph. Instead, you need to structure the body of your literature review in themes or ideas, synthesizing information from various sources and center your research topic on your research questions.

So, your literature review should include the following:

• The main ideas, theories and concepts related to your topic.
• Areas of agreement and disagreement related to your topic
• Any problems or gaps in the literature related to your topic.

Here are some things to think about while doing literature review:

• What are some common themes?
• Compare and contrast the various findings, arguments, theories, and methodologies in the literature.
• What do the authors agree or disagree about? What are the major areas of disagreement, controversy, or debate?
• Critique the literature; synthesize and evaluate the research, don't just describe or report it. Look for any assumptions or bias in the literature.

Your literature review should be in the following structure:

Introduction - In the introduction part, you should introduce the general issue and its importance. Identify key trends or perspectives, the specific focus of this literature review and give a brief outline of the structure of the body.

Body - In this part, you should develop themes, highlighting major concepts, influential studies, etc., in relation to your topic. Focus on areas of agreement, disagreements, tensions and contentious issues related to your topic. Use strong topic sentences at the beginning of each paragraph so the reader can clearly identify the theme or aspect of the theme being discussed.

Conclusion - Finally, you should summarize major contributions in the literature, in the context of the particular focus mentioned in the introduction. Conclude by summing up and identifying the significance of the topic in relation to the literature.

Literature review -

1. Uses sufficient and appropriate primary resources to develop background or context for research question.

2. Focuses on areas of agreement, disagreements, tensions and contentious issues related to your topic.

3. Identifies the significance of the topic in relation to the literature.

4. Clearly describe the contributions of your study.

The literature review assignment must consist of:

1. Identification if potentially relevant literature.

2. Evaluation of relevance and quality to select literature for analysis and synthesis.

3. Analysis and synthesis of literature.