Undergraduate Students' Difficulties in Writing their Thesis Literature Review

Abstract

Abstract : As there is a lack study investigating the students' way in writing their literature review. Also, the difficulties and the solutions in writing literature reviews in Indonesia. This study aims to prove the data about that. Using qualitative study, this research collected the data by doing interviews with five students from the last semester of their bachelor's degree who are still writing their thesis. The data prove that the students write their literature review by selecting suitable material from various sources, writing in a complete and sequentialway following the template of another research despite of having undergraduate thesis guidelines and supervision with the lecturers. Besides, their difficulties are identified as deciding the content, coping with lecturer's expectations, making coerence of the idea, grammar, finding good quality sources as some of them are paid access or difficult to find. Those are solved by taking examples from already published documents as they have been revised and well-arranged

 

Keywords : Academic Writing, difficulties, undergraduate thesis