REVIEW OF RESEARCH BASED LITERATURE (BRM917)

COURSE ASSESSMENT WEIGHTAGE

RESOURCE PERSON: ASSOC. PROF DR ABDUL RAHMAN ABDUL RAHIM
CONTACT DETAIL: aman@uitm.edu.my
CONTACT NO: 03-55444791
Assessment Details %

Suggested source: Referred Journals from

Management/Marketing/Finance/Economics, Textbooks

Individual The purpose of this assignment is to help student to understand how research is conducted
Assignment & and reported in related field of study. Student will need to read a peer-reviewed article from a
Presentation scholarly journal. See Appendix 1 for the detail of the requirement of the article critique. 10%
(Article Critique)
(PLO6, PLO8) Presentation and Discussion will be conducted in class.

Evaluation; See Rubrics 6.1a & Article Critique Rubrics (Appendix 1)

Suggested source: Referred Journals from (PLO6 = 50%

Individual
Management/Marketing/Finance/Economics, Textbooks PLO8=50%)
Assignment &
Presentation
1. Students are required to specify their focus of study/specific problem area.
(PLO6, PLO8)
2. Based on the focus of study/problem area, students are required to write down the
30%
background of study, problem statement, research objectives, research questions,
significance of the study, scope of study and definition of key terms.

Presentation and discussion will be conducted in class

Requirement and Guidelines:

Year of publication (reference): ≤ 5 years (2019)
All reports must be accompanied by a plagiarism check report (i.e. Turnitin). Plagiarism
similarity index should be less than 30%.
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 Between 4 – 5 pages (between 3500 -4000 words)

Evaluation: see 6.1a, 8.1a and APPENDIX A

Test will be conducted during the 6th week of the semester. Students will be given not
MID TERM
more than five (5) articles (lecturer’s discretion) at least 3 days before the test date for
ASSESSMENT their readings. In the two (2) hour test, students will be given evaluative questions on 20%
related literature reviews base on the articles given.
(PLO 6)
Based on the readings of the articles of the area of study, students (in a group - ≤ 3
person) will be asked to write on their review of the literature (based on their focus of
the study/problem area) by organizing, reviewing and analysing previous literature.

Requirement & Guidelines: (PLO5 = 50%

Group
-Year of publication: for the past five years (2019) PLO8=50%)
Assignment/
--Written review (title & sub titles): 10 – 12 pages (1.5 spacing, font 11 Arial)
Project Paper
- need to be presented
(PLO 5,PLO 8)
-All reports must be accompanied by a plagiarism check report ( i.e Turnitin). 25%
Plagiarism Similarity Index should be < 30%

Evaluation: see RUBRICS 5.3 and 8.1

Group Suggested source: Referred Journals from (PLO5 = 50%

Assignment/ Management/Marketing/Finance/Economics, Textbooks PLO8=50%)
Project Paper
(PLO 5, PLO 8) Based on their reviews of the literature, students (in a group - ≤ 3 person) will be asked 15%
to develop a theoretical or conceptual framework and to argue, discuss and eventually
develop the hypotheses of the study.

Requirement & Guidelines:

-Year of publication: for the past five years (2019)
--Review: 5 -6 pages (1.5 spacing, font 11 Arial)
-All reports must be accompanied by a plagiarism check report ( i.e Turnitin).
Plagiarism Similarity Index should be < 30%

Evaluation: see RUBRICS 5.3 and 8.1

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 Total: 100%

Appendix 1: Article Critique Assignment

Marks allocated: 100 Marks
Due date for submission: Week 6 (10 articles) / 2nd week
Objective of the assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to help student to understand how research is conducted and
reported in related field of study. Student will need to read a peer-reviewed article (quantitative) from a scholarly journal.
You should limit your search to:

 Full text
 Scholarly (peer reviewed) journals
 Published in the past 5 years

How to do it:
Base on your area of interest, get TEN (10) articles that are published for the last five years and review the content using the
following guide. Submit the articles together with your report. The report should be short and precise while deliberating the required
information.
1. Does the article begin by identifying a specific problem area and provide conceptual definitions on key terms?

2. Does the article establish the importance of the problem area?

3. Does the article have a stated research question or problem?

4. Does the article indicate the basis for ‘factual statement’?

5. Does the literature have been critically reviewed?

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 6. Do the specific research purposes, questions, or hypothesis logically flow from the introductory material?

7. Is the article recent and cited current literature as well as relevant to your research topic?

8. Has the article distinguished between theory, research results, and opinion?

9. Has the article (base on the empirical evidences) has elaborately discuss and argue before developing the research
questions or hypotheses.

10. Is this an article that describes the collection of data, or does it describes other studies in which data were collected?

11. Was the article organized in a manner that was logical and easy to digest? What could have been done to further improve its
structure?

12. Did the article contain a section that outlined and reviewed studies that had previously been done on this topic? In what
ways was this previous literature relevant?

13. If the author explained procedures that were followed in the study, were they clear enough that you could repeat the work
and get similar results? What additional information would have been helpful or required?

14. If data were collected, could you describe how they were collected and how they were analyzed? Do you agree with what
was done? What additional things would you have completed?

15. Do you agree with the interpretation of the results? Why or why not?

16. Finally, reflect over the entire article. What is most important to you? What did you find most interesting? What do you think
are the strengths and weaknesses of this article? Will you remember this article in the future? Why or why not?

For example:
Author(s). (year of publication). Article title. Journal name, volume, number, pages.

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First, summarize the article and then next explain and critique the article based on the following:
1. Does the article have a stated research question or problem; that is, could you determine the focus of the author(s) work?
Does the purpose clearly define?

2. Is this an article that describes the collection of data, or does it describes other studies in which data were collected?

3. Was the article organized in a manner that was logical and easy to digest? What could have been done to further improve its
structure?

4. Did the article contain a section that outlined and reviewed studies that had previously been done on this topic? In what
ways was this previous literature relevant?

5. If the author explained procedures that were followed in the study, were they clear enough that you could repeat the work
and get similar results? What additional information would have been helpful or required?

6. If data were collected, could you describe how they were collected and how they were analyzed? Do you agree with what
was done? What additional things would you have completed?

7. Do you agree with the interpretation of the results? Why or why not?

8. Finally, reflect over the entire article and offer your opinion on the value of the study. Will this study further our knowledge
base on the related area of study? What does it add to our knowledge of management/marketing/finance etc?

Formatting:
1. The assignment should be two to three pages long, typed, double spaced on an A4 paper.
2. Please ensure that proper APA referencing styles are adhered to.

Submission includes:

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1. Individual Summary
2. General Summary
3.

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Article Critique Rubrics

Weightage Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Very Satisfactory Mark Given Total Points

Paper is organized,
has an intro, body
Paper is not well organized, Paper is well organized, has
and conclusion.
has an unclear or non- a very clear intro, body and
The purpose of the
existent intro, body and conclusion. The purpose of
paper becomes
conclusion. The purpose of the paper is clear from the
Organization 20% clear within the 0.2 x =
the paper is unclear and very beginning and the
paper and the
the name and author of name and author of the
name and author
the article is not stated or article is made clear early
of the article is
stated late. in the paper.
mentioned within
the paper.
The article is
clearly
summarized, but
some sub points The article is clearly but
The article summary is are addressed succinctly summarized -
unclear or overly detailed. along with main only the key points of the
Summary 20% Often well over half of the points. The article are touched upon. 0.20 X =
assignment is taken up by summary is not The article summary takes
the summary. succinct. Often the up no more than one third
summary takes up of the total assignment.
more than 1/3 of
the total
assignment.
Critique 30% Strengths and weaknesses Strengths and Strengths and weaknesses 0.30 x =
are addressed peripherally, weaknesses that that are central to the
weakly, or not at all. The are peripheral to article are addressed. The
discussion of strengths and the article are discussion of strengths and
weaknesses take up only a addressed. The weaknesses take up the
small part of the discussion of majority of the

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 assignment strengths and assignment.
weaknesses take
up the majority of
the assignment

There are many There are few

There are no grammatical
Mechanics 15% grammatical errors and/or grammatical errors 0.15 x =
errors or typos.
typos or typos

APA/MLA and page

Meets APA/MLA and page length length APA/MLA and page length
15% 0.15 x =
Requirements requirements are not met. requirements are requirements are met
met

Total 100%