The Literature Review in The Dissertation: The Language Education of Universitas Negeri Semarang

DOI

10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.70How to use a DOI?

Keywords

literature review, structural development

Abstract

This research aims at explaining how the literature reviews (LR) are written by the post graduates of Universitas Negeri Semarang. It is a textual discourse study focusing on explaining the structural developments of the LRs and their quality. This is done since based on the preliminary study it was found that the LRs have various structural developments. Some of them are written one by one which means that they are not written economically; others contain only descriptions with no evaluation, furthermore the explanation of the relation between the previous study and the current one. The data of the study were LRs taken out of 5 dissertations in the years 2016-2017. The study used a qualitative method. It evaluated LR structural development by means of the instrument proposed by Jian (2010) which was the modification model of Swales (2002); it segments the previous study review into 4 (four) elements: establishing a thematic territory, surveying and summarizing previous research, creating a research niche (preparing for present research), and occupying the research niche. The quality of LRs was evaluated and scored based on the rubric proposed by Boote and Beile (2005) which consists of five categories: coverage, synthesis, methodology, significance, and rhetoric. The results show that all of of them tend to have incomplete structural developments and the scores show that they are likely to have unsatisfactory quality

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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