Oh ya since I'd attended a webinar related to how you can avoid your major corrections during the viva, I would like to share some important points as follows:
a) title of the thesis is important because, by the title, the examiner will expect the content of the thesis.
b) title represent the aim of the study.
c) title also must clearly and directly represent the type of the research.
d) one thing that I learn new thing is the type of research. Normally the research has TWO types, namely basic/fundamental and applied. If we can define our research type, we will know the type of methodology, instruments, why we must triangulate, etc.
e) the literature review actually has several steps which by having a proper process, the candidate will find the gap of the study. The speaker said, normally the candidate always do a literature search that does not meet the level of reviewing and critically review the previous studies. I can simplify the steps here; first, find the underpinning theories, literature search, categorise, synthesise the literature to compare and contrast and find what is missing in the previous literature, arguing in terms of weaknesses and strengths. The report and provide our proposition. Then we can find our theoretical gap/ gap of knowledge.
f) underpinning theories at least three (3).
g) issue is related to our subject matter or topic, NOT the problems.
h) based on the issues/subject matter, then we can discuss the problems. But all the problems should come from the literature search and review.
i) significance of the study is important to highlight the stakeholders involved in our study.
j) scope of the study is the boundary of our research/ delimitation. Remember that this scope of the study should be bounded by our title.
All the important points that I jotted during the webinar yesterday. Alhamdulillah.
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