Basic and Advanced Skills They Don’t Have: The Case of Postgraduate and Literature Review Writing

Purpose – This paper aims to identify the difficulties postgraduate students face in writing the literature review for their thesis and dissertation. Methodology – Seventy postgraduate students from 9 faculties in one public university in the Klang Valley consented to participating in this study. They were 49 Masters candidates and 21 doctoral (PhD) candidates attending a workshop on academic writing. Among them, 31 were Malaysians and 39 were...