SPAA held its 6^thworkshop for the Teaching & Academic Affairs on the 25^thof April 2019 at the Zonghe Building. The lecturer for this workshop was Dr. Long Yi of SPAA. The workshop aimed toequip the graduate students with information on how to do Literature Review as they start their preparations for the dissertation. 

Dr. Long Yi highlighted that literature review is one of the fundamental stages of conducting a researchas it guides the topic and reveal information on previous researches done in aparticular studyarea. Dr. Long Yi showed the students how to searchfor literature on the UESTC library database, different ways of sorting thematerialsand how to identify the high quality papers. The importance for the quality of information gathered makes a great contribution to the quality of the research.

The students in attendance got to interact more by asking questions that were related to literature review and how best they can do it to produce high quality papers. They praised the event and expressed that they learnt a lot. Steven Dakar, a student of SPAA said, “We had awonderful lecture. A great workshop indeed! Thank you Dr. Yi Long.”

The workshop ended on a high note and students willmake use of the tips and hints they received from this workshop.The 6TH Workshop on Literature and a Review for SPAA Intel Students was supported by CWAS of UESTC. 

“Literature Review helps to establish the importance of the topic, find background information needed to understand the study and justify your choice of research question.” 

–— Dr. Long Yi