...Writing a research report The following is a general guide to writing a research report focused on GIS, spatial analysis, or modeling. See the general resources page for other guides for writing and research. This presents some standard conventions for writing journal articles but highlights where you may want to make changes for a class report or thesis. Journal article. The 'standard' format used by most journals is a bit restrictive because it reflects traditional publishing practices. Figures and tables, for example, are usually attached as separate pages at the end of your text instead of being embedded in the text itself because it is easier to photograph them for publishing and the text itself is easier to typeset. Class report. Class reports are less restrictive in form and content than journal articles but they still share many characteristics. Conventions such as line double spacing and use of 12 point serif fonts like Times New Roman are designed to make it easier for your reader to review the paper and provide annotations where necessary. Take special notice of the "Top 10 Checklist" as these are items that are particularly important for class reports. Quick Links: Report structure General Considerations Top 10 Checklist References Report Structure The paper should be divided into sections that make the logical sequence of the argument clear. Common sections are described below. Treat these as what they are, suggestions. Some things, like the title...
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...AIT 628 Information Technology and Business Strategy Course Syllabus Course TitleCourse Session | AIT/628 - Information Technology and Business Strategy101 & 105 | Course Schedule/Room | Wed – 4:30 PM – 7:10 PM8/29/2013 – 12/19/2013 TD0145-107 & online | Instructor | Joanne Shumaker | Phone | 410-456-6808 | Email / Availability | evans1117@comcast.net (preferred email) Monday – Friday 11:00 am -1200 pm & 7:00 pm – 9:00 pmWeekends – 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Required Texts | Austin, R. D., Nolan, R.L. & O’Donnell, S.O, (2009) The Adventures of an IT Leader; hereafter referenced as: “ANO”McKeen J. D., & Smith, H. A, (2009), IT Strategy; Issues and Practices; hereafter referenced as “MSAll text should be available in the Towson Bookstore | On-line reading resources | CIO.com | Welcome! I would like to welcome you to AIT/628 Information Technology and Business Strategy, where you will review the development of an IT-enabled strategy and organizational design. We will attempt to research and analyze various frameworks for developing an organizational strategy. We will discuss setting up the organizational structure and IT architecture in terms of achieving a business strategy, as well as discuss frameworks for organizing, managing, and leading the IT function. You will also have an opportunity to discuss and solve management challenges based on your personal experiences. This class will be exciting and informative and I look forward to...
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...practice of how people communicate messages, not only in writing and speech, but also through visual and digital mediums. In this class, you will develop skills to analyze the way rhetoric, in its various forms, addresses audiences. By paying attention to the strategies that good writers and speakers use to persuade their particular audiences, you will learn to reason better and to persuade others in your own writing, both through rhetorical appeals and through analysis of audience, purpose, and exigency that is at the heart of the study of rhetoric. For RHET 1302, you will read and reread texts and write multi-draft essays. Practically speaking, you will learn skills that you can use in your future course work regardless of your major. Student Learning Objectives • Students will be able to write in different ways for different audiences. • Students will be able to write effectively using appropriate organization, mechanics, and style. • Students will be able to construct effective written arguments. • Students will be able to gather, incorporate, and interpret source material in their writing. Required Texts Rosenwasser, David and Stephen, Jill. Writing Analytically with Readings. Second edition. Thomson/Wadsworth, 2011. Fall 2011 Assignments and Academic Calendar |Wed, Aug 24 |Introduction to the Course | | |Quick review...
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...AND PLANNING AN ESSAY The Writing Backwards Method- A Scientific Approach Most of us don’t automatically have a thesis when we start to write, and, in many cases, even when we do, we don’t know exactly how we’re going to prove it in the essay. Although coming up with a thesis and main arguments at the beginning of the writing process is helpful, it is not necessary. Often, a thesis and main arguments become clear only after we start seeing what we can discuss in the essay. The following tips can help you to begin to organize your essay whether you don’t have a strong thesis or you have a thesis but are not sure about your smaller arguments and how to arrange your evidence. Remember that these tips are NOT strict rules for writing well, but rather provide a framework that you can use to start to organize your essay and come up with a strong thesis. 1) Calculating the number of body paragraphs A double-spaced, Times New Roman font page contains roughly 250 words or two paragraphs of 5-7 sentences each (A “good” paragraph has, generally, 3 pieces of evidence with analysis, a thesis that relates to the essay’s overall thesis, and a conclusion.). If you are given a minimum word count or page amount, simply convert that into how many equivalent paragraphs that would be. This will give you a rough idea as to how many paragraphs your essay will have to include. Generally, your introduction and conclusion paragraphs will not introduce ideas that you will have not already...
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...[Prepared by Course Chair: Dr. Ismail Safieh] Copyright ©2013-2014 Arab Open University TMA Please return your completed assignment to your tutor to arrive by the end of week 11, December 7th 2013. This assignment, which is made up of three tasks, relates to your study of E303 Book 1 (Getting Started: Describing the grammar of speech and writing) and the associated readings and activities. It represents 20% of the overall continuous assessment score (or OCAS). This TMA assesses your skills of grammatical analysis in greater depth and at a fine level of sophistication, and in addition assesses your skills of description and interpretation of texts in the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). You are not required to write more than 1,000 words, but you will also need to present some of your findings in the form of tables or diagrams. Please indicate at the end of your essay the number of words you have used. Before you start this assignment, refer to the general guidance on completing and submitting your assignments section on page 41in the course guide booklet that you have with the E303 package. In this TMA you will demonstratee that you can analyze, describe and interpret written texts from different registers in relation to their context using the aspects of SFL. You should complete all three tasks. Important notes: 1. You should write an introduction to the TMA at the very beginning of the page on which you are...
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...1. According to this article, what do you think is the purpose of the study? (25-30 words) The purpose of this study is to allow the researchers to observe health trends more closely and get latest information about Singaporean’s health, lifestyle and their habits ("NUS to conduct Singapore Health 2012 survey," 2012). (27 words) 2. In paragraph 2, the “Singapore Health 2012” survey “aims to reach more than 3,000 participants”. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a survey method? (150-250 words) There are many advantages and disadvantages of a survey method. The advantages of a survey method are that it lets researchers to gather a significant number of data in a short period time and is less expensive compare to most of the other data collection methods. In addition, survey can also collect information on variety of things, including personal facts, attitudes, past behaviors and opinions (Cherry, n.d.). Moreover, if there is a very large sample size, it will make the results statistically important even when exploring several variables (CSU, 2012). The disadvantage of a survey method is that it must be properly managed; the result of poor survey construction and administration can render the survey useless. Also, the answers provided on a survey may not be accurate of how the person truly feels. The response rates of a survey can bias the results of it (Cherry, n.d.). Besides, it may be hard for the person to remember information or to state the face about...
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...Assignment Assessment Guides MCD2040 Marker’s assessment of Assignment 1(a) - Annotated Bibliography The annotated bibliography should be 400 words and include: • Includes a summary of the main arguments or ideas for each of four academic sources • Includes an in-text citation (direct quote) that does the work of presenting the main argument for each academic source • Includes a critique or evaluation of each source’s usefulness to the essay question. Comments on the source’s reliability, objectivity or bias and makes a comparison with other sources reviewed • Writing and presentation style (clarity, coherence, spelling, punctuation, grammar and format presented as per guidelines detailed in Unit Outline) • Lists the correct bibliographic information for the four academic sources as per the Q Manual (i.e., complete details for the author/s, year, title, and publication) Satisfactory 1% Unsatisfactory 0 1% 0 1% 0 1% 0 1% 0 MCD2040 Marker’s assessment of Assignment 2(a) - Plan of the Group Report The plan of the report should be no more than one page long (approx 250 words) and include: • The purpose of the report • Background to the report (e.g. company information) • Sources of information • Proposed main findings • Proposed conclusions and recommendations Satisfactory 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% Unsatisfactory 0 0 0 0 0 1 MCD2040 Marker’s assessment and feedback sheet for Assignment 1 (b) – Short Essay Criteria Introduction and identification of managers’...
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...Individual Assignment week 4: Issue Analysis: 10 points After reading the selected critical issue, complete the worksheet below to analyze the issue. 0. Read Issue 17: Are Professional Women “Opting Out” of Work by Choice? This reading is located in the Taking Sides text. 0. Provide in text citations within each response and references at the end of the worksheet that follow APA guidelines. 0. Each response is worth 5 points, and each response must have a minimum of 250 words. Linda Hirschman and Pamela Stone present two opposing opinions as to why women are opting out of work. After reading both sides answer the following questions. 1. Summarize the main points of Linda Hirschman’s argument. In order for women not to “opt out” of the workplace, where does Hirschman feel that most change (home or the workplace) needs to take place and why? Linda Hirschman believes that there is, “the belief that women are responsible for child-rearing and homemaking was largely untouched by decades of workplace feminism (parg.6).” She goes on in Homeward Bound to talk about how women and men are taught that women are conditioned. She says that both sexes say that women are meant to stay home with the children. This is also where she talks about the most change that is needed in society. She believes that it isn’t just a woman’s responsibility. She also goes on to talk about feminism not being radical enough. She uses statistics of the rate of women with degrees...
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...required to demonstrate your understanding of concepts taught in the unit and relate them to the case in the article. This assignment is designed to encourage you to think about the application of concepts learned in this unit to real world scenarios. Although you can work in groups, this is not a group assignment and you must submit answers individually. You will be graded on your use of appropriate economic theory and concepts, clarity of exposition and overall quality of your answers. Your answers should follow “Guide to assignment writing and referencing”, available at this link: http://www.deakin.edu.au/currentstudents/assets/resources/study-support/study-skills/assignref.pdf. Answer all questions. Limit the total word count of your assignment to less than 3,000 words. Depth is encouraged over breadth: that is, it is more important that you demonstrate you understand a concept fully, rather than talk about 3 related concepts only cursorily. You are encouraged to use diagrams/examples in your answer when appropriate. 40 marks. Allocation as indicated next to the question. Your score on this assignment contributes towards 40% of your final score for this unit. This assignment must be submitted electronically on D2L (DSO) Dropbox area by all students by...
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...with the scale of the task This is important because it’s much harder to cut down to the required word count if you have written too much than to plan carefully and write the right amount in the first place. Scale is also important because it will dictate the amount of detail you can include. Think about the word limit (2,000 words, 3,000 words?). How many typed pages will there be (about 500 words per page with single spacing)? Roughly how many sections do you think there will be (e.g. 6 including introduction and conclusion)? For example, each section for a 2,000 word essay would be in the range of 300 – 350 words. Think about the number of words per page (500, font 12, single spaced or 250 double spaced). A 2,000 word essay will fill about 4 (or 8) pages. If you visualise and work within a framework like this, you will be more likely to produce a piece of writing that is of about the right length. No time wasted chopping bits out. Step 2: Consider the subject of the essay / the essay title Read the essay title carefully, as every word will be important. It may be helpful to identify two different sorts of words: Content words and Instruction words. Content words relate to the subject you will be writing about. The area about which you will be demonstrating your knowledge and understanding, be it cognition, anatomy, French history, Descartes or post-impressionism. Instruction words are those that tell you how you are expected to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding, e...
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...Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, enrolls close to 20,000 students. In a typical town-gown relationship, the school is a dominant force in the small city, with more students during fall and spring than permanent residents. A longtime football powerhouse, SWU is a member for the Big Eleven conference and is usually in the top 20 in college football rankings. To bolster its chances of reaching the elusive and long-desired number-one ranking, in 2001, SWU hired the legendary BoPitterno as its head coach. One of Pitterno’s demands on joining SWU had been a new stadium. With attendance increasing, SWU administrators began to face the issue head-on. After 6 months of study, much political arm wrestling, and some serious financial analysis, Dr. Joel Wisner, president of Southwestern University, had reached a decision to expand the capacity at its on-campus stadium. Adding thousands of seats, including dozens of luxury skyboxes, would not please everyone. The influential Pitterno had argued the need for a first-class stadium, one with built-in dormitory rooms for his players and a palatial office appropriate for the coach of a future NCAA champion team. But the decision was made, and everyone, including the coach, would learn to live with it. The job now was to get construction going immediately after the 2007 season ended. This would allow exactly 270 days until the 2008 season opening game. The contractor Hill Construction (Bob Hill being an alumnus, of...
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...with the scale of the task This is important because it’s much harder to cut down to the required word count if you have written too much than to plan carefully and write the right amount in the first place. Scale is also important because it will dictate the amount of detail you can include. Think about the word limit (2,000 words, 3,000 words?). How many typed pages will there be (about 500 words per page with single spacing)? Roughly how many sections do you think there will be (e.g. 6 including introduction and conclusion)? For example, each section for a 2,000 word essay would be in the range of 300 – 350 words. Think about the number of words per page (500, font 12, single spaced or 250 double spaced). A 2,000 word essay will fill about 4 (or 8) pages. If you visualise and work within a framework like this, you will be more likely to produce a piece of writing that is of about the right length. No time wasted chopping bits out. Step 2: Consider the subject of the essay / the essay title Read the essay title carefully, as every word will be important. It may be helpful to identify two different sorts of words: Content words and Instruction words. Content words relate to the subject you will be writing about. The area about which you will be demonstrating your knowledge and understanding, be it cognition, anatomy, French history, Descartes or post-impressionism. Instruction words are those that tell you how you are expected to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding, e...
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...the scale of the task This is important because it’s much harder to cut down to the required word count if you have written too much than to plan carefully and write the right amount in the first place. Scale is also important because it will dictate the amount of detail you can include. Think about the word limit (2,000 words, 3,000 words?). How many typed pages will there be (about 500 words per page with single spacing)? Roughly how many sections do you think there will be (e.g. 6 including introduction and conclusion)? For example, each section for a 2,000 word essay would be in the range of 300 – 350 words. Think about the number of words per page (500, font 12, single spaced or 250 double spaced). A 2,000 word essay will fill about 4 (or 8) pages. If you visualise and work within a framework like this, you will be more likely to produce a piece of writing that is of about the right length. No time wasted chopping bits out. Step 2: Consider the subject of the essay / the essay title Read the essay title carefully, as every word will be important. It may be helpful to identify two different sorts of words: Content words and Instruction words. Content words relate to the subject you will be writing about. The area about which you will be demonstrating your knowledge and understanding, be it cognition, anatomy, French history, Descartes or post-impressionism. Instruction words are those that tell you how you are expected to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding...
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...School of Business and Law University Of East London MK7227 – Postgraduate Dissertation- Assessment Guide Summary This is individual work.Research proposal: 1,500 words (formative) | | Word count: 14,000 words(excluding abstract, appendices and reference list, and the work can be 10% over or under this word limit) | | | | Learning Outcomes Evidenced by this project: 1. Explain the economic, cultural, institutional and political context of the research undertaken. 2. Articulate and justify the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the research undertaken. 3. Identify issues concerning the conduct of research undertaken such as ethics and data protection. 4. Structure a research proposal. 5. Review literature critically. 6. Identify appropriate theoretical frameworks. 7. Evaluate alternative perspectives in undertaking research. 8. Devise and apply appropriate methods for data collection and analysis. 9. Identify the theoretical, methodological and practical implications arising from research findings. 10. Write research findings for diverse audiences and contexts. 11. Choose a researchable topic. 12. Apply digital technologies in research. 13. Devise a timetable and manage time to completion. ------------------------------------------------- Submission procedure: ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- The submission...
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...TCHE2079 – Tertiary Teaching and Learning This model is from a different subject, but the process of evaluation is the same. Evaluating a Source 1. Refer to the most important source (book/article/webpage) you used in your Synthesis Essay. Respond to the topics and questions below and evaluate the source. Source: Davies M 2009, „Computer assisted argument mapping: a rationale approach‟, Higher Education, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 799-820. Full citation of the source, according to RMIT referencing guide for “Reference Lists” Topic Evaluation Authority (50 words) Is that author an expert? What evidence is there to support this? Martin Davies is an expert in this field. I Googled his name and found that he has 2 doctorates and is presently a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education in the Teaching and Learning Unit and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at Melbourne University. His page on the Melb. Uni. website lists all his publications (about 70), many of which are concerned with critical thinking in tertiary learning. Validity & Accuracy (50 words) How do you know the information is accurate? Is it from a valid source, e.g. an educational institution? Find out if it is peer reviewed or been passed by an editorial panel, eg is it in a refereed journal? His article includes an appendix in which he has placed all the data from the quantitative study he conducted. Though I can‟t be sure that this data were analysed correctly...
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