Semester 1 Sesi 2016/2017

HSA3043- Asia Tenggara Abad Ke-20.

Soalan Tugasan Berkumpulan
(30 Markah)
Arahan: Tulis sebuah kajian literatur berasaskan tajuk-tajuk berikut
berdasarkan kepada nombor dalam kumpulan tutorial yang didaftarkan.
Jumlah ahli untuk setiap kumpulan tidak boleh melebihi 4 orang. Panjang
esei adalah antara 3-40 muka surat termasuk bibliografi. Format penulisan
mestilah menggunakan font Arial dengan saiz 11 dengan langkau baris 1.5.
Penulisan hendaklah mengikut format penulisan sejarah berbentuk ilmiah
yang lengkap dengan nota kaki dan bibliografi. Tajuk-tajuk ialah:
1. Gerakan Kesedaran di Asia Tenggara sebelum Perang Dunia Kedua:
Indonesia.
2. Gerakan Kesedaran di Asia Tenggara sebelum Perang Dunia Kedua:
Vietnam.
3. Gerakan Kesedaran di Asia Tenggara sebelum Perang Dunia Kedua:
Laos.
4. Gerakan Kesedaran di Asia Tenggara sebelum Perang Dunia Kedua:
Cambodia.
5. Gerakan Kesedaran di Asia Tenggara sebelum Perang Dunia Kedua:
Filipina.
6. Perjuangan kemerdekaan di Asia Tenggara Zaman Jepun: Indonesia.
7. Perjuangan kemerdekaan di Asia Tenggara Zaman Jepun: Vietnam.
8. Pertahanan British di Asia Tenggara: dari AMDA ke FPDA.

Literature Review Guidelines

Literature Review (Historiographic Essay):
Making sense of what has been written on your topic.

GOALS OF A LITERATURE REVIEW:

Before doing work in primary sources, historians must know what has been
written on their topic. They must be familiar with theories and argumentsas
well as factsthat appear in secondary sources.
Before you proceed with your research project, you too must be familiar with
the literature: you do not want to waste time on theories that others have
disproved and you want to take full advantage of what others have argued.
You want to be able to discuss and analyze your topic.
Your literature review will demonstrate your familiarity with your topics
secondary literature.

GUIDELINES FOR A LITERATURE REVIEW:

1) LENGTH: 8-10 pages of text for Senior Theses (485) (consult with your
professor for other classes), with either footnotes or endnotes and with a
works-consulted bibliography. [See also the citation guide on this site.]
2) NUMBER OF WORKS REVIEWED: Depends on the assignment, but for
Senior Theses (485), at least ten is typical.

3) CHOOSING WORKS:
Your literature review must include enough works to provide evidence of both
the breadth and the depth of the research on your topic or, at least, one
important angle of it. The number of works necessary to do this will depend
on your topic. For most topics, AT LEAST TEN works (mostly books but also
significant scholarly articles) are necessary, although you will not necessarily
give all of them equal treatment in your paper (e.g., some might appear in
notes rather than the essay).

4) ORGANIZING/ARRANGING THE LITERATURE:

As you uncover the literature (i.e., secondary writing) on your topic, you
should determine how the various pieces relate to each other. Your ability to
do so will demonstrate your understanding of the evolution of literature.
You might determine that the literature makes sense when divided by time
period, by methodology, by sources, by discipline, by thematic focus, by
race, ethnicity, and/or gender of author, or by political ideology. This list is
not exhaustive. You might also decide to subdivide categories based on
other criteria. There is no rule on divisionshistorians wrote the literature
without consulting each other and without regard to the goal of fitting into a
neat, obvious organization useful to students.
The key step is to FIGURE OUT the most logical, clarifying angle. Do not
arbitrarily choose a categorization; use the one that the literature seems to
fall into. How do you do that? For every source, you should note its thesis,
date, author background, methodology, and sources. Does a pattern appear
when you consider such information from each of your sources? If so, you
have a possible thesis about the literature. If not, you might still have a
thesis.

Consider: Are there missing elements in the literature? For example, no

works published during a particular (usually fairly lengthy) time period? Or
do studies appear after long neglect of a topic? Do interpretations change at
some point? Does the major methodology being used change? Do
interpretations vary based on sources used?
Follow these links for more help on analyzing historiography and historical
perspective.
5) CONTENTS OF LITERATURE REVIEW:
The literature review is a research paper with three ingredients:
a) A brief discussion of the issue (the person, event, idea). [While this section
should be brief, it needs to set up the thesis and literature that follow.]
b) Your thesis about the literature
c) A clear argument, using the works on topic as evidence, i.e., you discuss
the sources in relation to your thesis, not as a separate topic.
These ingredients must be presented in an essay with an introduction, body,
and conclusion.

6) ARGUING YOUR THESIS:

The thesis of a literature review should not only describe how the literature
has evolved, but also provide a clear evaluation of that literature. You should
assess the literature in terms of the quality of either individual works or
categories of works. For instance, you might argue that a certain approach
(e.g. social history, cultural history, or another) is better because it deals
with a more complex view of the issue or because they use a wider array of
source materials more effectively. You should also ensure that you integrate
that evaluation throughout your argument. Doing so might include negative

assessments of some works in order to reinforce your argument regarding

the positive qualities of other works and approaches to the topic.
Within each group, you should provide essential information about each
work: the authors thesis, the works title and date, the authors supporting
arguments and major evidence.
In most cases, arranging the sources chronologically by publication date
within each section makes the most sense because earlier works influenced
later ones in one way or another. Reference to publication date also
indicates that you are aware of this significant historiographical element.
As you discuss each work, DO NOT FORGET WHY YOU ARE DISCUSSING IT.
YOU ARE PRESENTING AND SUPPORTING A THESIS ABOUT THE LITERATURE.
When discussing a particular work for the first time, you should refer to it by
the authors full name, the works title, and year of publication (either in
parentheses after the title or worked into the sentence).
For example, The field of slavery studies has recently been transformed by
Ben Johnsons The New Slave (2001) and Joe Doe argues in his 1997
study, Slavery in America, that . . . .
Your paper should always note secondary sources relationship to each other,
particularly in terms of your thesis about the literature (e.g., Unlike Smiths
work, Mary Browns analysis reaches the conclusion that . . . . and Because
of Andersons reliance on the presidents personal papers, his interpretation
differs from Barrys). The various pieces of the literature are related to
each other, so you need to indicate to the reader some of that relationship.
(It helps the reader follow your thesis, and it convinces the reader that you
know what you are talking about.)

7) DOCUMENTATION:

Each source you discuss in your paper must be documented using

footnotes/endnotes and a bibliography. Providing author and title and date in
the paper is not sufficient. Use correct Turabian/Chicago Manual of
Style form. [See Bibliography and Footnotes/Endnotes pages.]
In addition, further supporting, but less significant, sources should be
included in content foot or endnotes. (e.g., For a similar argument to Ben
Johnsons, see John Terry, The Slave Who Was New (New York: W. W. Norton,
1985), 3-45.)

8 ) CONCLUSION OF LITERATURE REVIEW:

Your conclusion should not only reiterate your argument (thesis), but also
discuss questions that remain unanswered by the literature. What has the
literature accomplished? What has not been studied? What debates need to
be settled?