Done with your project chapter one, the chapter two is next I suppose. How easy literature review sounds but yet has proven to be one of the most technical sections in final year projects where undergraduates fumble structurally in their research documentation. The constant fumbling could be attributed to a mix-up of what it takes to successfully do a review of related literature as it concerns the current research.
 
Here is a walk through for a deeply analyzed literature review
 
It is worthy of note that literature review is not an avenue to do a recap of the select papers in view or how they went about their research. Rather, you are expected to examine the variables that have been studied previously, how the researcher(s) went about the studies and the research outcome. Don’t stop there, complete your review with a close illustration of how each of those research outcomes affects, relates or concerns your own final year project.

Recall that literature review is not limited to one previous research, depending on what project topic you are studying, you could selectively pick two, three, four or even five previously published or unpublished projects done in your project topic cycle. This will help make your research a little more elaborate and ofcourse your review more comprehensive.
Have these in mind when doing your project literature review

 Analysis      
Review of related literature requires careful analysis and identification of key research procedures and findings that supports your research. It means you should follow through right from the dependent and independent variable under study, the research objectives, the research population, sample size and procedures up to the research findings. Take time to figure them out and proceed to what’s next.

Interpretation of findings
To further illustrate your comprehension of the review, give explanatory information of on the research findings. Try to keep your prose manageable.

Significance   
So as mentioned earlier, this is exactly where to demonstrate your final year project adaptation to the select literature in review. How does this document you have reviewed support your project topic? What factors do they share in common? What does my project topic intend to do better based on what I have observed so far? Those are queries you should give answers to when drafting this segment of the literature review.

Literature review consists of Review of existing literature and Review of related literature; while the former applies to text books, journals and the likes, the later applies to published or unpublished research papers that have been duly documented. However in discussing them, the above three key indicators should be applied diligently. Ensure to give due acknowledgment in your literature reviews to make your credible.

Editor's source Final year projects

On choosing their final year project topics, undergraduates are assigned a project supervisor; in some cases however, Supervisors are assigned first before project topics approval is made. Whichever way it applies to you, it takes the collaboration of project students and their supervisors to successfully complete a final year project.

Project supervisors are assigned not for formalities but to guide students structurally on the presentation of final year project research and ensure proper documentation. However, it is very necessary that you learn to establish a cordial relationship with your supervisor for a smooth progress of your project. Two cannot work together except they agree. You will be guided on smart tips on how to keep up with your supervisor in this quick article.

Keeping up with your project supervisor

Ask for permission to contact him/her
Calling expressly without due permission seems like a bridge of privilege to some people. So it does no harm to first ask for permission. It shows how much you wish to keep the communication line open with due regard.

Be thoughtful about gifting
You don’t have to gift someone, even your supervisor only when they ask. It makes more sense when you are thoughtful about gifting what he or she really needs. As little as a cup of surprise morning coffee can brighten your supervisor’s day. It strengthens your relationship with your supervisor.

Set appointment date and time
You should also ask your supervisor to fix an appointment date and time that suit his schedule. You should do so to avoid showing up at the wrong time or day, it will also help your research progress.
It’s not bad if you send a reminder of your appointment prior to the set date.

Take note of remarks and corrections
If you want to constantly impress your project supervisor, ensure to effect remarks and corrections made in your previous file before re-submission.   Do not be incorrigible, pay attention to correction.

Ask questions
Make your appointment days engaging when you ask necessary questions about your research. It is best to ask open ended questions so that the answers and response you get will be elaborate.

Keep to time and date
Show diligence when you keep to appointment dates and time. Be sure to prepare your documents before the set date.

The place of a project supervisor in your research is to guide you and make the most of his/her audience, you must maintain a healthy relationship not forgetting to accord due respect to his office as a lecturer.

Editor's source final year project topics

No research material, no problem. There is no big deal about not finding it easy with resource availability for your final year project topic. Infact, being clueless about a project topic to anchor your research on is instrumental to your research journey, otherwise how can ever have a story to tell much after?

Speaking of final year project topics, it is the first indicator that an undergraduate is ready for a research. Usually at the end of their degree programs, undergraduates are expected to take on a research in their field of study and specialization. This is in partial fulfillment of their undergraduate program.  However not everyone gets the topic idea to research in at once, it happens most times that a spike is required to spark up that inspiration.

Quite thoughtful, there are places to get free project topic ideas and research materials with the intention of making research alot easier. With the availability of free project topics and research materials, undergraduates can find a hook to their areas of research interest or continue with a recommended research topic.

The research materials, on the other hand are meant to proffer guidelines for the structural presentation of research documentation and never for research malpractices.
Eduprojects.ng is a plug you can trust for free and updated project topics and research materials from social sciences to arts to engineering, environmental, medical and biological studies to mention but few.

Why do you need this    
•   You should start your research early and a search for a project topic shouldn’t hinder it.

•   Gives you options to draw your project ideas from

•   You need the research materials for reference purposes and ofcourse structural guidelines
 
•   At some point in your chapter two- project, that section requires a review of related topics; sourcing for previous project topics and research materials becomes inevitable.
 
The need for resource materials should not be over emphasized. In research, there are areas yet to be explored and to understand exactly where, undergraduates should identify the areas so far covered. It gives a clue of what lies ahead.

Other places to source for research materials include

•   School or state library within your reach and one that helps your research

•   Academic Journals

•   Text books as it concerns your project topic

•   Records unit of schools
 
•   News room most especially those in your school

•   Laboratories

Editor's source Final year project topics

On a normal day, research does not promise convenience, and for the fact that it is mostly deliberate, the researcher is meant to brew his/her mind with every level of preparedness. However, final year projects doesn’t appear as deliberate is it was meant to be; and as prerequisite, in partial fulfillment of their undergraduate programs, it becomes almost natural to do a final year project research. To that effect, it feels doctored that one can choose your project topic by yourself and decide which resource materials to take from and which to cut off. Managing your expectations becomes the goal. But sorry expect anything.

Speaking of what to expect, writing final year projects is a journey not a destination and to think that every undergraduate is entitled to a first time research is worth asking what the worst that could happen is? The intention of this article is simple - to expose undergraduates to things they should expect in the course of their research journey.

So here are what you should expect in your research project journey

Your draft can be ruled out or cancelled
Your confidence can be intimidated when your meticulously drafted research draft is crossed out by your project supervisor for a mistake that should have simply been pointed out.
 
Your project topic could be changed in the middle of your research
Lol, but yeah it happens. I can attest to a colleague of mine, back in the days, whose project topic was rejected at the project defense panel. Yes you didn’t get me right, I mean she has concluded her research but on the defense day, her topic was rejected on the grounds that the project topic was too advanced for her level.

Some reasons your project topic could be ruled for change;
•   If your project topic is faulty
•   If it lacks materials  to back up your research
•   If you are committing a research malpractice.
•   If your project topic is not achievable at the undergraduate level.

Availability of projects supervisor not certain
You can start off your final year project research early and finish very late, because your project supervisor may not always be available to make corrections, offer advice and make approvals without which the progress of your research is denied.

Resource available is not certain
You may have labeled the resource materials you will adopt for your research but things can go south making those available resources almost useless. Take on a plan B in terms of research materials for your project topic.

Final year projects wear the nature of every kind of research – it is full of uncertainties. Infact, the uncertainties makes it what it is, or else it is no more a research.

Editor's source Final year projects

Even though it is so easy to start off final year projects documentation, it seems so difficult making a first attempt; why is that so? I can’t tell either because at some point, I found myself doing the same thing without any reason to table. Later however, I discovered undergraduates most of the times need a little push to start off something; like giving a short dead line or a promise to give a test unannounced. But for final year projects, it’s a different ball game all together. The time frame is usually at your disposal making students procrastinate their start-time. Perhaps a motivation is required.

Introducing a project starter kit for project chapter 1
If this is the motivation you need, then you have it – the project chapter one of the easiest thing you can have throughout your research documentation. Where students feel shaken could be about the historical background, so let’s dwell on that a little.

Background study explained in simpler terms
When the say a ‘historical background’ or ‘background of the study’, it simply requires that you give an overview of the situations that has inspired your research generally. This time you don’t have to be specific about it, because if you do, you will be repeating it when writing your projects ‘statement of problem’.

For instance, if your research is about health, poverty elevation or empowerment, it is safe to use the Sustainable development goals (SDGs) as a background to your study, taking time to recall the specific goals or objective which your research is anchored. Developing this topic, it is also safe to reference previous researches done in this regard. Now that’s a lead.
Background overview nurtures the background objectives of the research which you must expand further, as you progress.

Statement of problem   
The difference between the statement of problem and background overview is that the former is clear-cut, short and more specific. You don’t have to quote anyone. In a short prose, write the main reason you choose that final year project topic.

Research objectives
Next after the problem statement, you draft your research objective. Objectives are what this project is set to achieve. You don’t have to manipulate your objectives because your research finding will be recalled to confirm if your research objectives were truly achieved.
How do you know, because the content of your research objectives constitute your data analysis table.
 
Other details
The remaining details that may contain in your project chapter will be influenced by your course of study, your project topic and the research type.
You may have to provide details for;

•   Research questions

•   Content categories

•   Unit of analysis

•   Definition of terms

•   Delimitation of the study and the likes.

The information provided her about starting your project from the first chapter is typical with most undergraduate research materials. You simply need to confirm where your department or perhaps your project topic requires a tweak.

Editor's source Final year projects

If you are not taking a second undergraduate degree or perhaps repeating a course, you certainly do not have any business doing a final year project more than the first time. In clearer terms, final year projects are meant to be done once and for all, which also implies that there is only a first and only time for every final year student, all things being equal. Therefore it is necessary to recall the guideline ‘every first time’.
 
My personal experience as a project student, years ago, shows that drafting your final year project topics and getting them approved is one thing, and it is another to get started already. So here are easy tips to help you open your project file for easy start:-

Choose more than one project topics
The interest gets really high when students scout for new undergraduate project topics because a lot comes to mind. Such factors as the most preferred field of specialization, the easiest project topic to work on, a topic without huge financial input, a topic that  require less complicated research methodology etc.  With all these in mind, you are still embattled with the chances of getting your project topic approved once submitted. So to save yourself the stress, kindly choose more than one project topic, taking time to consider the several areas you have developed keen interest in and ofcourse the underlying factors surrounding the topic in question.

Your ‘statement of problem’ should sound more deliberate than ever
Be deliberate about stating the reasons you want to embark on a research. The more intentional it sounds, the better the chances of getting your final year project topic approved faster.

Check for resource availability
Due to the standard of undergraduate projects, some topics are not allowed to run without a prior research in that regard atleast for reference purposes. To avoid such cases, ensure to check for the availability of resource materials before you make any project topic your choice.

Understanding your project topic is key  
You can’t do more than get confused if you do not understand what the project topics you have chosen require. Always remember that for every project topic, there is a research method and techniques that can work it out – it is not a one size fits all kind of thing. Study your project topic, understand what it takes and that’s the first key you need to unlock the next step.

Now that you are all set
So your mind is prepared, I suppose. Expect more of our starter-kit guidelines, but first, get your mind ready for this task  with these set of tips and your project topic ready aswell then follow up for the next step.

EDITORS SOURCE FINAL YEAR PROJECT TOPICS