Research Paper Information
Your paper is due, on your website, by 8:00am on Monday, December 4. You don't have to print out a copy, just put it on the web so that I can grade it. Your paper must be around 2000 words, which is about five typewritten pages. You must have a minimum of six sources for your paper, and it must be organized concisely and logically. You must also document your citations with either footnotes (preferred) or APA citation styles.
What should the paper be about? Well, some topic in the computer field. I have listed several topics below, but you can choose from any of them or any of your own. You must submit your topic to me via email no later than midnite on Thursday, October 12. I will respond back to you with approval and or suggestions for the paper. When you send the email, please use the subject line of MIS 353 - RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC so that I can flag it and read it.
HINT: You can write your paper in Microsoft Word, and then use the "save as html" option in Word to save it as an HTML file. Then you can FTP that file from your PC to Flamingo.
NAMING CONVENTIONS: Your paper should be called lastname.html, where the word "lastname" is your last name. It should have the extension of HTML and should be located in a subdirectory called paper, under your public_html directory.
Possible Topics
2. Expert
Systems
3. CASE
tools
4. Desktop
Publishing
5. 4th
Generation Languages
6. DOS and OS/2
and Windows NT
7. Microchannel
and ISA bus designs
8. UNIX -vs-
OS/2 and Windows NT
9. Page
Description Languages
10. Hypertext,
hypermedia and multimedia
11. Object-oriented
programming
12. IBM -vs- Macintosh
computers and standards
13. Laptops/Notebooks/Pen
computers
14. Systems analysis
and design methodologies
15. Workgroup software
16. Network operating
systems
17. Electronic Data
Interchange
18. Graphical User
Interfaces
19. GUI based application
software
20. Presentation
software
21. Neural networks
22. Outsourcing
23. Client/server
computing
24. Downsizing
(rightsizing)
25. Software industry
mergers
26. Application
generators
27. Information
centers
28. Virtual Reality
29. Multimedia
30. Interoperability
31. OOPS - Object
Oriented Programming
32. the Internet
33.