Design Research Methodology - Secondary Data: Critical Review

RES 60604 | Design Research Methodology
Week 5- Week 7
Lee Rong Sheng (0341661)

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Lecture Notes

Lecture 5: Critical Review
04/10/2019 (Week 5) 

1. Look for journal articles 

2. Critical Review

• Pick 7 articles for you to review critically 
• Judging, evaluating with information 
• You have read enough, looked at others' work 
• Not just a summary - an analysis and evaluation of a book, article etc 

3. Good critical review

• You understand the material 
• Know how to analyze and evaluate the material 
• Strengths and weaknesses of article's idea and content 
• Provides description, analysis, interpretation that allows the reader to assess the article's value 
• Read the pdf with blue page in it 

4. How to know if the article is relevant to you

• Title 
• Abstract 
• If you wanna know more, look at reference list of that research paper 
• If you come across a journal 10 or more pages - read abstract - conclusion page 
• Ask yourself, have I done this, am I critical enough 

5. Do one critical review by next week

6. If you find the notes that are good for you, download and save it and don't forget the APA format


What is critical review ?

How to write a critical review




Sample of research paper




Lecture 7: Critical Review
18/10/2019 (Week 7) 

We had a lecture about our research implementation this week. These are the notes I took down during the lecture:

Qualitative 

• No statistics 
• Unstructured response options 
• Record down what every single word the responder said 
• Analyse the answers more thoroughly 

Quantitative 

• Measurable in numerical form 
• More objective 
• Number based 
• Less in depth 
• Fixed response options 
• Statistical tests 
• More generalisable 

Research Tools 

• Research Techniques 
• Diary studies 
• Brainstorming 
• Gamestorming 

Others 

• Values 
• Ethics 
• Get consent from others
• Select 2 methods of retrieving info and justify

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Instruction

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Critical Review
04/10/2019 (Week 5) 

I started looking into various articles that were related to our spesialization. We were told to write about 5 articles by next week. Below are the articles I found online.

Article 1:



Article 2:


Article 3:


Article 4:


Article 5:


Article 6:


Article 7:


11/10/2019 (Week 6)

Dr. Hayati said my first article review was quite alright, just have to take care of the grammar and refine some words.

18/10/2019 (Week 7)

Lecture

 Dr. Hayati explained to us about the qualitative and quantitative method. She also briefed us the things that we need to be prepared for next week. Choose a method and 2 instruments.

Submission

Final Compilation of critical review: