The purpose of this paper is to increase your knowledge in a particular area of this course material. It will help us with some of the broader educational issues: enhance your writing and research skills, helping you to broaden your knowledge of a subject and to help with critical thinking.
As Teenagers we were clearly critical thinkers, especially where our parents were concerned and as students, in high school we were not expected to use those skills, but at the college level and in business you are expected to use critical thinking. Books and articles make statements that may or may not be right or make sense and we should be thinking as we read and not just accept everything that we read as correct simply because it was published. We need to get into the habit of separating fact from opinion and expect substantiation of items presented as facts. Unbelievably, just because information is in a book or on the Internet there is no guarantee that it is true or correct.
For your paper select one of the Issues below, locate a current Article that addresses the key points of the Issue, remember that we are dealing with technical issues, so an article on Mobile Computing written in 1990 would not be anything of value to a reader (it might be of value if you were researching the changes in the way that people think about mobile computing, but not for this project). It is important that the article be from a respected author and source, the Costco magazine or another student’s work are not appropriate sources. Read the Article and summarize the key points not the details of the Article so that the reader can understand what is in the Article in a general sense and then critique the article in general, explaining why you have taken that position. This does not mean that you argue with what the author said in his article or evaluate the author’s position, but rather, the critique should address, the relevance of the material, quality of the article and if the author achieved his objective. Include a read or don’t read recommendation to your readers and the value of reading the Article supported by your analysis.
Summarizing an article is not a detailed description of the article, but rather, is short, uses general terms that explain what the article is about and the position that the author takes in the article. If the author gave ten factors that a buyer should consider when buying a computer, you would not list the factors, but, rather, say that the author identified many factors that should be considered when buying a computer. The critique is how well he met his objectives, did his arguments make sense and were they supported or just assertions. This does not mean whether you agree with what he said or what you think that he should have said, since this is not an issues paper. The critique is of the article and how well it meets its planned objective. Then, based on your critique make a recommendation to your classmates on the article and whether they should read the article and why.
To help you to meet the requirements of this assignment I am including the Assessment Form that I will be using for this assignment,
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Criteria
Factors Considered
Objective
easily identifiable, charted course, followed course, aided reader in comprehending the approach
Comments:
Summary of Article
the sense of the Article, complete, accurate, succinct
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Structure
evident, understandable, appropriate for project. Excellent transitions from point to point. Paragraphs support solid topic sentences.
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Critique of Article
ideas in the critique flow logically; the argument is identifiable, reasonable, sound and based on critical assessment of the Article, Author anticipates and successfully defuses counter-arguments; makes connections to outside material or personal experience
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Grammar
Sentence structure, grammar, and diction excellent; correct use of punctuation and citation style; minimal to no spelling errors; absolutely no run-on sentences or comma splices.
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Overall Effect the X-Factor
was the reader convinced, bored, excited, actually read the article based on the recommendation
Comments:
Your paper should be no more than 2 pages in length, double spaced excluding cover sheet and Bibliography and following the APA Style and Citation Rules . (Excluding any title page or Bibliography page, this assignment can be done in ONE page double spaced.) You must attach a copy of the Article or a link that takes the reader (ME) directly to the article in the Bibliography that you are summarizing and critiquing to receive a passing grade since I cannot evaluate what you wrote without reading the article. (The link must bring up the article not some intermediate site LIKE THE Library Database Login screen).
1. The Maturing of E-Business
2. Ethics in the Computer Age
3. The Global Consumer
4. Enterprise Systems importance to the firm
5. Database/Web Alternatives
6. SPAM
7. Business Process Reengineering
8. Open Standards
9. Mobile Computing
10. Ethics in the Computer Age
11. Network Security
12. Privacy in the Workplace?
13. Government right to monitor information technology usage.
14. Management efficiency from the employee point of view.
15. Computer crimes (hackers, crackers, and Spammers)how are they different from normal" crime or are they?
16. Software piracy and copyright protection and the Corporation.
17. Gambling in cyberspace
18. Pornography in cyberspace (for example, the US Supreme Court ruling protecting as free speech computer-generated "child" pornography)
19. The value of Corporate Systems Plans
20. Which is better purchased application software vs. custom built (or vice versa)
21. The importance of Disaster Recovery Plans for systems or business
22. The importance of process flow analysis to system development success
23. Vaporware and the Corporation
24. Organizational structure and MIS
25. Managing the use or misuse of information resources in the Corporation
26. The impact of the skill of employees on obtaining systems benefits
27. How to justify a systems project
28. Using systems to increase management efficiency
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