You will write one concept paper during the term. These will serve to allow you to research issues and techniques that are useful to e-commerce. They should have a direct value to your learning and also make a contribution to your group's progress on the final project. The information goals to investigate are:
Each paper should be between 5 and 20 pages long and incorporate material from the course and our text. The expectation for IT4123 is between 5 and 10 pages; the expectation for IT6763 is between 10 and 20 pages. The paper should also be based on material that you find in other books, publications, the library, the web, and/or develop from your own experimentation.
Each paper must have:
A title page with a meaningful title, your name, this course title, and an abstract. The abstract needs to cover the one or two main points from each of the paper's sections.If you have trouble writing an abstract, try completing these sentences: My main goal in this research was ... My method of approach was to ... My main findings included ... My top priority recommendation was to ... The value of this research to my learning and group project was ...
An Introduction section, describing the issue or technique that you investigated.
A Method of Approach section, describing how you performed your investigation in enough detail so that another IT professional could duplicate what you did.
A Findings section, describing what you found in your investigation with appropriate citations to where you found it. If you have any doubt about citing references, over-cite them. The web site for CS6023 might be helpful for you here http://tapestry.spsu.edu/drrich/classes/cs6023
A Recommendations section, describing what in light of your findings that you recommend should be done to ensure quality web application development.
A Value section, describing the value, importance, and benefit of your findings and recommendations for both
A References and Bibliography section, listing the references and bibliographic citations used in your paper. Please pay significant attention to citing references and sources. If you have any questions, consult the CS6023 web site (URL above).
An Acknowledgements section, listing the other people in this class or other classes or work or family etc. that provided or evaluated your ideas and writing. Acknowledge the person, the relationship and the contribution, e.g.,
The papers will be written and graded individually. As they are written, information can be shared and utilized with attribution and acknowledgement. A webct course will be set up to facilitate information sharing and appropriate acknowledgement and citation.
Note that plagiarism, tempting as it is, will not be tolerated. If you want to include material that was written by another student or that you download from the web or copy from books, etc., make sure you that clearly indicate through quotes and reference citations the material that you have utilized, copied or downloaded. Also, you need to actually write (at least 3 pages of) summary, analysis, synthesis, etc. of (copied or downloaded) material in your own words. This is not an English composition assignment, and I will accept any English prose that I can understand. (If I can't understand it, I will let you know and give you a chance to fix the writing.) But, I will not tolerate plagiarism--meaning I will grade as a zero any concept paper assignment submission that I conclude involves plagiarism.