We determine the research objectives together with several stages, first we identify the research topic and determine the area or research topic that we want to develop by creating a topic tree. Next, we conducted a literature review to understand the research that had been done previously related to our topic. Then, we identify knowledge gaps based on a literature review, this aims to find gaps or lack of existing knowledge on the topic. The next stage that we do is to formulate research questions.
The final stage is to determine specific and measurable research objectives, so that the aim of our research objective is "to investigate what influences or factors that can affect food poverty in Papua, Indonesia". And we fully understand how important it is to determine our research topic and research objectives first, because by determining the topics and research objectives, we can better understand the discussion that will be discussed in future, besides that we also have clearer goals where our systematic review must go.
After our group determined the research objectives of our topic, our group created an outline first to aid in our assignment. Our group understands the importance of writing an outline of our topic beforehand prior to starting our systematic research, because it will make it easier for our group to search for journals, articles, or reports and keywords that are related to our topic. By writing an outline, it can also be our basis for making systematic reviews and our procedure for writing the systematic review also becomes more structured and organized.
In addition, by creating an outline, our group is also able to save time in writing systematic research. More importantly, writing the outline from our topic allowed our group to think critically and hone our communication and organizational skills. Outlines can also help us more easily specify and find sources of keywords that match with our research objectives, so that with the outline, we can more easily use the keywords and be used to develop our systematic reviews.
Based on the assignments that we have done; we can learn various ways to search for literature that we can use to make systematic reviews related to our group's research objectives. These methods include making search strategies before conducting a literature search such as making sentences for search keywords by using the words AND or OR of the keywords that have been created. An example of these search keywords is Food Poverty AND Papua. Then, the search keywords are used to search for literature that has been published in various databases such as Science Direct, Proquest, and others.Â
We can also use a variety of advanced search features to help find literature that is relevant and suitable for use in our systematic reviews, such as by using date filters, language types, methods, and others. Once we have the relevant literature, we can organize it using a reference manager like Zotero. To find the literature, we work together to find literature related to our research objective. We searched for 50 literatures, where each of us searched for 10 articles. Our group enjoys finding the literature because we're looking for it together at the same time, so it takes a short time.
We use published and unpublished articles and books, using a database consisting of SpringerLink, Science Direct, EBCOHost, Wiley Online Library, Garuda (Indonesian), Binus University Library and Knowledge Center (LKC), Diponegoro University Repository, and Brawijaya University Repository. We obtain a lot of journals and books from these numerous databases. We examined information on Food Poverty in Papua using these diverse databases. We divided the task of reading literature extremely well throughout the group, such as by dividing the quantity of literature equitably.
Because we utilize so many periodicals and books, we divide them fairly among our group members. The reading results will be compiled and summarized. We utilize it to accomplish the Critical Thinking work well and to support each other while doing it with the group. If one of us doesn't understand, we strive to help so that we achieve the best results possible. We also remind each other to do our assigned chores. As a result, social conditions in our group are good and seamless.
Our group divides tasks by doing ladders, so it's done randomly and sometimes it's done through group meetings when there are confusing assignments, so we can work together directly and better. The distribution of tasks carried out is fair and equitable so that no member works. In our opinion, our group's dynamic is already great. We divide tasks fairly and work together so that no one feels left behind or confused about the tasks at hand. Each member helps other members and tries to find out when they miss information and so on. We feel that our group is quite compact and has good sympathy among members so that we enjoy time together and rarely have difficulties when completing assignments.
With all the assignments we have made, our group has gained a lot of useful insights for our future knowledge. By working on existing assignments, we managed to find out various kinds of research methods and ways of writing each and more or less we have understood the differences. In addition, our knowledge of the materials we take to complete assignments has also increased, so that we have additional insight in the field we are working on, which is Food Technology.Â
As already mentioned, we also know quite a lot of different types of journals. So that we can find out what type of journal is suitable to meet the needs of the writing that we do, apart from the type, we also become aware of various official and unofficial sources that could or could not be used. Our group also gained a lot of new knowledge from consultative meetings which were held regularly by the lecturers so that we didn't lose our way and were able to complete each assignment quite well.
