DAT2330 - Research ProjectDue Date - 10:00AM Monday, June 4, 2001Weight in Final Grade - 5%Objectives
Summary of Requirements
Team WorkThe reports are to be team efforts. You select your own team. A team may contain three, four, or five students. A team may not contain one, two, or more than five students. How to reserve your O/S:Have one team member go to the DAT2330 discussion news group for this term:
Look for and read the thread (subject topic) entitled: "Teams: Research Project Choices ". Read any already posted articles to ensure that no one else has picked the same OS as your team. If your choice is already taken, choose another OS. If not, use the Follow-Up feature of your news reader to post a follow-up article stating the OS your team has chosen in the subject line of the follow-up news article: Subject: We selected <the name and version of your O/S goes here> List the names of all team members in the follow-up news article body. Do not reply by E-mail. The first valid team to post and select a particular operating system has priority. Post only when your team is assembled - postings containing less than three student names will not reserve an O/S choice! Research MethodResearch your O/S and briefly describe it using the following four headings, in the following order:
This report is only worth 5% of your overall grade; don't submit a hundred pages of small print copied blindly from the results of a Web search. Marks are awarded for being selective as well as being comprehensive! (Your future boss won't have time to read huge, rambling reports either.) Summarize the material you find; don't just copy it. Reports incorporating a variety of information sources will be valued more than reports generated solely from online searches. Attribute, with source, author, and date, your use of copied material and ideas that are not your own. Report Submission FormatThe resulting brief report is to be formatted in HTML. To do this, you may use Netscape Composer, write your own HTML, or use any other HTML tool you wish. Save one copy of your report in a safe place and upload one copy to any public web server. You can choose to upload to NETSRV, the College web server, or to ACADAIX. If you upload to a non-Algonquin web server, make sure the server is reliable and available until the end of the term. Project URLs will be posted on the course web page for our mutual edification (which is why all links to web sources must be live and click-able). Send the URL of the public web site in a plain-text E-mail message to your instructor before the deadline. (Do not send HTML or word-processor email. Plain text only.) Team member full names and Algonquin E-mail addresses (not Hotmail!) must be listed in the body of the E-mail submitting the report URL. The names of the authors should also appear on the Web page itself. Each team member must also print and submit a written, confidential peer evaluation form (on paper) to the instructor on or before 10AM Friday, June 8. ResourcesResearch consisting of only Internet sources may be considered suspect and incomplete unless the sources are of high-quality. Periodicals, books, and libraries existed long before Internet; find them and use them! Research consisting of only cut-and-paste excerpts from web pages, with no document structure or lacking flow or readability, will not be acceptable. Treat this paper as if you were submitting it to an employer and showcasing both your technical knowledge and presentation skills. (You may be doing exactly that some time soon!) Remember: Summarize your findings; don't expect me (or your employer) to read dozens of pages! |
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